Manuela Riedo

Ryano · October 19, 2007, 01:56:57 PM

Quote from: mannix on October 19, 2007, 01:40:34 PM
Not his first offence from what I hear.Some of you may have taken me up wrongly,I am totally for a long term in jail.The thing is the guy will not even blink when charged.
He may have other members of family that have less than shining histories from what I have heard.

The entire family have a fearsome reputation around Galway city with most people having heard of them while the majority of people from the Mervue/Renmore side of the city will know of them well. They are scum and have been associated and charged or investigated with just about every sort of criminal enterprise going. That plus unprovoked attacks on people outside pubs, walking down streets or just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Himself and his brothers have had it coming for a long time and the only pity here is that he was not locked up a long ago and then maybe this poor mis fortunate girl would still be alive and her parents would not be laying their beautiful young daughter to rest today. The keys need to be thrown away when they lock up this animal.

deiseach · October 19, 2007, 02:18:32 PM

At the risk of being accused of making little of the heartbreak of the Riedo family, people need to keep a sense of perspective when drawing conclusions from this murder. In 2004, the murder rate in Ireland was 0.91 per 100,000 members of the population. To put this into context, the murder rate in Switzerland was 2.94 per 100,000. By all means, lock up the sc**bag who did this for forever and a day, but let's not get carried away with talk of crime pandemics or bringing back hanging.

(Source: Ninth United Nations survey of crime trends and operations of criminal justice systems)

ludermor · October 19, 2007, 02:23:02 PM

Good post deiseach

mannix · October 19, 2007, 04:10:06 PM

I THINK IF IT WAS MY SISTER I WOULD ALLOW HIM ROT IN JAIL FOR HIS TERM AND THEN DESPATCH HIM TO HIS ETERNAL REWARD. HARDMAN AGAINST A GIRL, NOT SO HARD ANYMORE.

Bogball XV · October 19, 2007, 04:22:08 PM

Quote from: deiseach on October 19, 2007, 02:18:32 PM
At the risk of being accused of making little of the heartbreak of the Riedo family, people need to keep a sense of perspective when drawing conclusions from this murder. In 2004, the murder rate in Ireland was 0.91 per 100,000 members of the population. To put this into context, the murder rate in Switzerland was 2.94 per 100,000. By all means, lock up the sc**bag who did this for forever and a day, but let's not get carried away with talk of crime pandemics or bringing back hanging.

(Source: Ninth United Nations survey of crime trends and operations of criminal justice systems)

That's a good point, but I remember us having this discussion on here or the previous board and since then I've been a little more aware of all the murders, I believe that this year will set a new high for Ireland. Does anyone know how many murders there have been this year? It does appear that we are becoming increasingly violent, our previous figures were incredibly low however.

T Fearon · October 20, 2007, 11:38:12 AM

Personally if drug dealers are killing each other in turf wars, well hell slap it up them and more of it,even it it does drive Ireland into the upper echelons of the murder rate league table.

However there seems to be an increasing number of entirely innocent victims in recent times.

Incidentally saw this boy Barry's photo in the paper today...one bad looking fcuker alright

magickingdom · October 20, 2007, 12:58:42 PM

Quote from: deiseach on October 19, 2007, 02:18:32 PM
At the risk of being accused of making little of the heartbreak of the Riedo family, people need to keep a sense of perspective when drawing conclusions from this murder. In 2004, the murder rate in Ireland was 0.91 per 100,000 members of the population. To put this into context, the murder rate in Switzerland was 2.94 per 100,000. By all means, lock up the sc**bag who did this for forever and a day, but let's not get carried away with talk of crime pandemics or bringing back hanging.

(Source: Ninth United Nations survey of crime trends and operations of criminal justice systems)

who mentioned crime pandemics? as for keeping a sense of perspective, its no harm to lose that every now and then..

Mentalman · October 20, 2007, 05:04:21 PM

Quote from: magickingdom on October 20, 2007, 12:58:42 PM
who mentioned crime pandemics?

Exactly. As for bringing back hanging, no way, I'm totally opposed to the death penalty myself. I can't see how Ireland's international image would be improved by murdering one person to avenge another's murder? And as for one murder being OK because that person is bad and another not because that person was innocent, that's just nonsense. Apart from everything else, logic would tell you a drug dealing/robbing murderer who kills one of his own kind and gets away with it is only emboldened and feels they can do as they please. Just look at the scumbags who shot that traffic cop a few weeks ago. My own personal belief is in true "zero tolerance". Zero tolerance isn't about posturing and talking tough and handing out big sentences. The essence of zero tolerance is if a window gets broken, the window gets fixed immediately, and the breaker of the window pays the costs. You teach people that when they do something wrong, no matter how small, there is a consequence and a price to pay. That way you stop people from becoming desensitised to their actions and their consequences, thinking they can do what they please, graduating onto greater crimes, and only getting punished when they commit a major crime - robbery/assault etc. - by then it's already to late, 90% of people are by then criminals for life, who in all likelihood will try to pass their criminality onto the next generation. By all accounts if this guy you killed Manuela is as bad as we are told, all this could have been averted if the Gardai, the court system and we as a society had showed him there were consequences to his earlier transgressions and given him food for thought. He is still totally responsible for his actions, but some people are just so wrong, society has got to set them right early.

Rossie11 · March 21, 2009, 03:20:34 PM

Barry gets life for Riedo murder
http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0321/riedom.html

mouview · March 21, 2009, 10:59:06 PM

A real shame the death sentence has been abolished.

Declan · May 28, 2009, 03:54:04 PM

Jesus - This lad should never see the light of day again

The Galway man who murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 has now pleaded guilty to raping a French woman in 2007.
Riedo killer admits 2007 rape

Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 01:41 PM

The Galway man who murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 has now pleaded guilty to raping a French woman in 2007.

Gerald Barry (aged 29), of Rosan Glas, Rahoon, Galway pleaded guilty to orally and anally raping the 23-year-old woman near the GAA pitch at Walter Macken Road, Mervue on August 16, 2007.

He was declared a sex offender and remanded in custody for sentence later on these charges by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Cloverhill.

Barry is serving a life sentence imposed on him on last by Mr Justice Barry White following his conviction by a jury of murdering the 17-year-old girl. The jury took two hours and 38 minutes to find him guilty following a seven-day trial.

Barry strangled Ms Riedo after having sex with her on a pedestrian walkway known as "The Line", close to the Lough Atalia area of Galway city on October 8, 2007.

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/riedo-killer-admits-2007-rape-412681.html#ixzz0GoTVLqNY&B

Treasurer · May 28, 2009, 03:58:53 PM

He also had a five-year prision sentence for violent disorder in connection with the murder of Roscrea man Colm Phelan (RIP) - which happened while he was out on bail.

balladmaker · May 29, 2009, 04:52:32 PM

There is a massive concert being held in Manuela Riedo's home city of Bern, Switzerland, on Saturday 25th July, in Stad de Suisse Football Stadium. All proceeds go to the Manuela Riedo Foundation.

All Irish acts are giving their services for free, appearing are: The Chieftains, The Wolfe Tones, The Dubliners, Shane MacGowan, Sharon Shannon, Kilfenora Ceili Band plus others to be announced....

http://www.manuela-riedo-foundation.ch/

Doogie Browser · May 29, 2009, 04:58:39 PM

Quote from: balladmaker on May 29, 2009, 04:52:32 PM
There is a massive concert being held in Manuela Riedo's home city of Bern, Switzerland, on Saturday 25th July, in Stad de Suisse Football Stadium. All proceeds go to the Manuela Riedo Foundation.

All Irish acts are giving their services for free, appearing are: The Chieftains, The Wolfe Tones, The Dubliners, Shane MacGowan, Sharon Shannon, Kilfenora Ceili Band plus others to be announced....

http://www.manuela-riedo-foundation.ch/

That is fantastic. The Riedo family need to know (am sure they already do) that the Irish people were abhorred at what happened their daughter, well done to the bands concerned and hope it is a great night - what a line up!