Not Attempted Murder?

Anonymous User writes "This woman stabbed her husband's ex-lover 17 times and is acquitted of attempted murder but found guilty of grevious bodily harm.

How can you stab someone 17 times and not intend to kill them?"

Ed. note: Some may ask how this relates to men's rights issues as such. This is an example of how a person's femaleness is taken into consideration implicity and without true relevance to the matter at hand-- had this been a man killing another man under similar circumstances, can anyone doubt that he would be found guilty of murder and sentenced commensurately with the ferocity of the crime? The problem here is that the sex of the perp has obviously been taken into account when viewing the question of her level of accountability for her actions, and she has in essence been largely let off the hook simply because she is a woman.

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