Free Ross Wilson....

[Ed De Gramo]

Jailed for 7 months because he scaled the Forth bridge...he was crying out for help...absolutely outrageous sentence dished out :grr:

I've read about people getting community service for muggings and assaults...

Complete joke like

[MSK]

Perhaps the punishment doesnt meet the crime here Gramo but look at it another way ...3.5 months off the alcohol & poss time to get the help he needs inside ..

[Ed De Gramo]

Perhaps the punishment doesnt meet the crime here Gramo but look at it another way ...3.5 months off the alcohol & poss time to get the help he needs inside ..

confined to a cell though?

Thats not right....caging him like an animal because he made people late for their tea....

I went to school with the lad...and he's a genuinly good guy :agree::agree:

[FraserHFC]

The justice system in this country is a joke :agree:

The guy obviously needs help and I can't see locking him up doing that

[hibbybob]

Sentencing is a joke! Some stupid motorist who caused a FATALITY because she was texting whilst driving only got 21 months!

[MSK]

confined to a cell though?

Thats not right....caging him like an animal because he made people late for their tea....

I went to school with the lad...and he's a genuinly good guy :agree::agree:Do you know the full story Gramo ..?...im not saying the decision is correct, however there could poss be more to it than we know of...

The sentence doesnt surprise me in the slightest though...he isnt the first to be jailed for scaling the bridge & certainly wont be the last ..

[MSK]

Sentencing is a joke! Some stupid motorist who caused a FATALITY because she was texting whilst driving only got 21 months!That was disgraceful :agree:...but as i said on another post ..not surprising nowadays ...

You can get the jail for 6 months for failure to pay fines etc but jailed for 3 months for nearly killing someone ..:confused:

[sleeping giant]

That was disgraceful :agree:...but as i said on another post ..not surprising nowadays ...

You can get the jail for 6 months for failure to pay fines etc but jailed for 3 months for nearly killing someone ..:confused:

And you get 24 months for having full sex with a baby:bitchy:
The justice system is a ***** joke

[lyonhibs]

Christ that's messed up.

Gramo, did Ross Wilson have a older brother called Chris?? Their dad ran/possibly still does run a hardware store??

If so, I'm genuinely shocked at the news. He was a great lad growing up, and I was in the same year at the BB's as his big brother for literally a decade.

Christ, that's shocking - he and his family seemed pretty stable when I knew him, so it's a real shame to hear of this :bitchy:

I can honestly say if this is one and the same Ross Wilson, then something must have gone majorily tits up in his life over the past few years, and I hope he gets the help he deserves, because beneath the tortured soul that climbed the Forth Road Bridge there is (or at least was) a cracking human being.

[MSK]

And you get 24 months for having full sex with a baby:bitchy:
The justice system is a ***** jokeOr a judge reducing a killers sentence because he felt the original sentence was too harsh !!!!!..wtf :confused:

[Ed De Gramo]

Christ that's messed up.

Gramo, did Ross Wilson have a older brother called Chris?? Their dad ran/possibly still does run a hardware store??

If so, I'm genuinely shocked at the news. He was a great lad growing up, and I was in the same year at the BB's as his big brother for literally a decade.

Christ, that's shocking - he and his family seemed pretty stable when I knew him, so it's a real shame to hear of this :bitchy:

I can honestly say if this is one and the same Ross Wilson, then something must have gone majorily tits up in his life over the past few years, and I hope he gets the help he deserves, because beneath the tortured soul that climbed the Forth Road Bridge there is (or at least was) a cracking human being.

he is indeed.....u and my brother were in the same BB year as Ross's brother :agree:

I was a few years behind with Ross...:agree:

[lyonhibs]

he is indeed.....u and my brother were in the same BB year as Ross's brother :agree:

I was a few years behind with Ross...:agree:

Jesus effin Christ. We may disagree on here often, but I'm with you on this one. This is a ****in tragedy.

Ross Wilson in jail!!!- christ, I knew the lad when he was practically knee high to a grasshopper.

Seriously hope he gets through this, and that judge wants to have a word :bitchy:

The Ross Wilson I knew would barely hurt a fly, and I can genuinely see 7 months in prison being a very, very bad thing for him.

[500miles]

Utter farce. How could the Judge come to this conclusion?:bitchy:

[Jamesie]

Did he go to trial or did he plead guilty?

[hibsdaft]

i saw this story earlier and thought it was very strange but just assumed that i didn't know the full story.

makes you sick considering the terms some folk get for stabbing etc.

[Hiber-nation]

I have only read what was reported but this appears to be effin scandalous.

We were all talking about this at the work today, but assumed there was more to it than what was reported. Maybe not.

[hibsbollah]

That sounds horrific:boo hoo:

[LeithWalkHibby]

I seem to remember some posters having no time for 'attention seekers' on North Bridge, yet they seem to have changed their tune here? :confused:

[Ed De Gramo]

I seem to remember some posters having no time for 'attention seekers' on North Bridge, yet they seem to have changed their tune here? :confused:

:bye::bye::bye::bye:

[Nando™]

I seem to remember some posters having no time for 'attention seekers' on North Bridge, yet they seem to have changed their tune here? :confused:
Good point...

[lyonhibs]

I seem to remember some posters having no time for 'attention seekers' on North Bridge, yet they seem to have changed their tune here? :confused:

Take a hike. Care to name names, or are you just blustering. Normally, I wouldn't comment on stories like this, being as I hardly ever know the people involved and their background, but this is different.

Very simply, for Ross Wilson to have got to the stage where climbing the Forth Road Bridge seemed like a wise idea, something must have gone very seriously awry in the lad's life, and it's professional help he needs, not SEVEN months in the clinky. What crime worthy of a criminal record did he actually commit??

[LeithWalkHibby]

Take a hike. Care to name names, or are you just blustering. Normally, I wouldn't comment on stories like this, being as I hardly ever know the people involved and their background, but this is different.

Very simply, for Ross Wilson to have got to the stage where climbing the Forth Road Bridge seemed like a wise idea, something must have gone very seriously awry in the lad's life, and it's professional help he needs, not SEVEN months in the clinky. What crime worthy of a criminal record did he actually commit??

They know who they are.

[Sergio sledge]

Take a hike. Care to name names, or are you just blustering. Normally, I wouldn't comment on stories like this, being as I hardly ever know the people involved and their background, but this is different.

Very simply, for Ross Wilson to have got to the stage where climbing the Forth Road Bridge seemed like a wise idea, something must have gone very seriously awry in the lad's life, and it's professional help he needs, not SEVEN months in the clinky. What crime worthy of a criminal record did he actually commit??

I remember the thread, don't think it was any of the same guys who have commented here though. IIRC Gramo started that thread too.

[lyonhibs]

They know who they are.

Now I think about it, I remember that thread. But I don't think anyone thats posted on this thread has "changed their tune" since the 1st thread have they???

Anyway, this sentence is a farce in terms of severity, especially given the nonsense sentences that frequently get handed out for crimes that wreak far worse consequences than holding up Forth Road Bridge traffic for a hour or two.

[Ed De Gramo]

They know who they are.

Loving the cloak and dagger approach....I may have said in that past...I cannae quite remember...but the fact is the north bridge situation didn't result in the person being jailed for 7 months...:bye::bye:

[Andy74]

Very simply, for Ross Wilson to have got to the stage where climbing the Forth Road Bridge seemed like a wise idea, something must have gone very seriously awry in the lad's life, and it's professional help he needs, not SEVEN months in the clinky. What crime worthy of a criminal record did he actually commit??

I know nothing about this, but just to comment on this - isn't it the same for anyone who has commited a crime or does something wrong - for them to have reached that stage some set of circumstances has come into play and they have acted in that way. This is different becuase you know them but every day people who have commited crimes are known to somebody and they would be able to say the same thing.

We judge some people as just being bad and others as good and needing help. I don't think it's a simple as that.

[SlickShoes]

Loving the cloak and dagger approach....I may have said in that past...I cannae quite remember...but the fact is the north bridge situation didn't result in the person being jailed for 7 months...:bye::bye:

Im sure plenty of the suicide attamtps on north bridge have been jailed, but thats not the point, what makes it different is that you know the person.

[Phil D. Rolls]

:bye::bye::bye::bye:

Nice to see the lad has friends that will support him when he gets out, and that's something he should remember.

Seems to me there's more to what he did than "making people late for their tea". What about the people who had to go and get him down, there doesn't seem to be much thought for the danger they were in.

As for the "cry for help" argument, I'm sure he was given every opportunity to accept help after the event. For a start he would have been assessed to see how much of a suicide risk he was. In a free world, he's allowed to refuse help, and if he did then he has to accept the consequences of what he did - you can't have it both ways.

As for the sentence, I think it's fair. I don't think some of the other examples that people have given are fair, and in some cases heavier sentences would seem to be right. That has nothing to do with what this boy did though, and maybe he'll have time to really think about what he did, and hopefully start to take responsibility for his own life.

His friends posting on seem to be puzzled about what is going on. That suggests to me there is more the guy than they know, and so maybe they should admit that people with more information may have made the right decision.

[matty_f]

Nice to see the lad has friends that will support him when he gets out, and that's something he should remember.

Seems to me there's more to what he did than "making people late for their tea". What about the people who had to go and get him down, there doesn't seem to be much thought for the danger they were in.

As for the "cry for help" argument, I'm sure he was given every opportunity to accept help after the event. For a start he would have been assessed to see how much of a suicide risk he was. In a free world, he's allowed to refuse help, and if he did then he has to accept the consequences of what he did - you can't have it both ways.

As for the sentence, I think it's fair. I don't think some of the other examples that people have given are fair, and in some cases heavier sentences would seem to be right. That has nothing to do with what this boy did though, and maybe he'll have time to really think about what he did, and hopefully start to take responsibility for his own life.

His friends posting on seem to be puzzled about what is going on. That suggests to me there is more the guy than they know, and so maybe they should admit that people with more information may have made the right decision.


:top marks

One of my dad's friends worked on the bridge until fairly recently, and he and his colleagues were put in horrendous situations with people going to jump off the bridge on a regular basis.

I agree with everything in that post.:agree: