Sentance extended, because of facebook comment

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A COCKY burglar who bragged on Facebook “I’m only looking at six months” has been jailed for more than two years.

Liam Cunliffe, 18, made his shameless boast just hours after escaping a manslaughter charge.

Tragic mum-of-three Pauline Reddick, 80, collapsed and died of a stroke after Cunliffe and Louis Corbett, 18, broke into her home.

The pair admitted burglary at Bristol crown court, but manslaughter charges were dropped because the pensioner’s death could not be directly linked to the raid.

It prompted Cunliffe to brag on Facebook: “Liam Cunliffe is a happy bunni all i can say DROPED!! YAA. I’m only lookin at 6 mouths haa bring it on easy!”

Passing sentence on Tuesday, Judge Neil Ford QC called the mis-spelt boast a “dagger into the heart” of Mrs Reddick’s grieving family.

He said: “I cannot sentence you for a lack of moral fibre and decency, but I am of the view you have shown no remorse. What you posted on Facebook... would have borne a dagger into the heart of the family of the bereaved.”

Cunliffe got 27 months in a young offenders’ institute. Corbett – who said on Facebook he “refused” to go to jail – got two years, also in a young offenders’ institute.

But Mrs Reddick’s family said they felt “cheated of justice” and had been left saddened by the callous Facebook comments.

In a victim impact statement read in court, they said: “The attitude of those we hold responsible for mum’s death caused much sadness and some anger. They have shown no remorse or conscience for their actions.”

Mrs Reddick had lived alone in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, since the death of her husband.

She was said to be visibly shocked after Cunliffe of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and Corbett, of Penzance, Cornwall, broke in to her home at 3.30am last August and fled with her handbag. Mrs Reddick, who had weakened blood vessels in her brain making them more susceptible to rupture, collapsed at home later that morning. She was taken to hospital and died 18 hours later of a stroke.

Two medical experts said in court it could have been triggered by the break-in. But the judge dismissed the manslaughter charge saying: “I cannot be sure of the link.”

His decision dismayed Mrs Reddick’s grieving family.

They said: “We are disappointed that the obvious link between the burglary and our mother’s death was not made.

“We feel we have been cheated of justice, and that common sense and logic have lost out.”

Burglar who bragged of short sentence given extra 18 months - mirror.co.uk

Glad to see he's spending longer in prison, sadly, still not long enough . . .