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Had he ided, we would probably see a level of scrutiny on the level of acceptable intrusion and vilification the media are allowed to cause.
I'm not overly sympathetic towards Veitch, because if he is convicted of what he's allegedly done, he deserves everything that would come to him in general population of a prison but ask yourselves, how many of you have made stupid spur of the moment decisions?
Now, how many of you have had to live that out on the front page and top headline in the news for weeks and weeks and weeks, losing your job, losing a lot of your friends and being taunted by the public due to being easily recognised.
It's alright to say "He never faces consequences, he should man up" but look at the level of consequence for his act, vs say an average NZ male accused of assaulting his partner.
I'd say he's facing a fair bit more consequence than the "normal" person in this situation.
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