The Heckler: Less than Appealing

[Yervant1]

Sunday Age (Melbourne, Australia)

February 10, 2008 Sunday

First Edition

 

 

The Heckler

 

[parts omitted]

 

Less than appealing

 

One inventive Victorian prisoner may finally have run out of ideas.

Early in 2006 his appeal against a 14-year term for setting fire to a

woman who had refused his marriage proposal failed so he tried the

Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission. He argued that the

interpreters who worked with him during his trial and appeal had

given him incorrect information because they were Armenian. The man

is Turkish and claimed they were influenced by traditional hostility

between Turks and Armenians. The commission knocked him back -

something to do with a complete lack of evidence. So he turned to

VCAT, which recently rejected the complaint as "manifestly hopeless".

 

 

 

[Takoush]

Sunday Age (Melbourne, Australia)

February 10, 2008 Sunday

First Edition

 

 

The Heckler

 

[parts omitted]

 

Less than appealing

 

One inventive Victorian prisoner may finally have run out of ideas.

Early in 2006 his appeal against a 14-year term for setting fire to a

woman who had refused his marriage proposal failed so he tried the

Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission. He argued that the

interpreters who worked with him during his trial and appeal had

given him incorrect information because they were Armenian. The man

is Turkish and claimed they were influenced by traditional hostility

between Turks and Armenians. The commission knocked him back -

something to do with a complete lack of evidence. So he turned to

VCAT, which recently rejected the complaint as "manifestly hopeless".

 

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.