Mom Murders Son, Avoids Jail
Here’s my theory: this site is actually very popular amongst judges, and they have a running competition to see who can get posted to it. Farfetched? To be sure. But I can’t think of any other explanation for the following:
Wendolyn Markcrow (say - wasn’t she a character in one of the Harry Potter books?) was apparently tired of caring for her son, a 36 year-old man with Down’s Syndrome. It was a tough gig. So she murdered him. Slipped him a Mickey and then suffocated him. The judge, a Mr. Justice Gross (say - wasn’t he one of the bad guys in the Judge Dredd comic books?), gave her a two year suspended sentence, meaning that Markcrow will not have to go to jail. He then called his buddy Joe Guimond, telling him (and I quote) “You like apples? I just presided over a case in which a woman murdered her mentally handicapped son - AND I LET HER WALK!! HOWYA LIKE DEM APPLES, BEYOTCH???!!! NOW GIMME MY TEN DOLLARS!!!” The judge then exited the court, pausing to give the defense lawyer a “high five”.
Tags: disabled, England, mom, murder
4 opinions for Mom Murders Son, Avoids Jail
Candace J
Nov 2, 2005 at 9:21 am
They just call him “Justice” because he’s a judge, right? I mean, that can’t possibly be his first name, can it?
Can you imagine writing that name out for a test? “Gross, Justice”.
Maybe he ws just trying to live up to it?
Court Clerk
Nov 2, 2005 at 12:11 pm
Yup, it’s his title, not his name. This case was in my local Crown Court today, as it happens. There’s a little more to it than the public record shows.
Here’s a case the same judge has just been dealing with. The bad parent in this case had his daughter’s boyfriend murdered. (Allegedly. The jury will return a verdict this week.)
SCB
Nov 9, 2005 at 10:55 am
Markrow would have been well-suited to working as a nurse in Nazi Germany during the days of the “T4 Euthanasia” program. Many of those nurses became quite comfortable with giving lethal injections to adults and children with Down syndrome, developmental disorders, cleft palates, infantile paralysis, schizophrenia, and other people Hitler and his henchmen deemed “life unworthy of life.” In fact, the T4 program soon disintegrated in “wild euthanasia” where anyone who happened to annoy the hospital staff could get the needle or be sent to a gas chamber. Markrow would have been right at home!
Kimberlee
Nov 22, 2005 at 9:30 am
Jeez. I got busted with 3 oz. of pot and got a worse sentence than that! (5 years, first and last offense). That’s rediculous.