Machete Attack Leaves Gay Man Permanently Disfigured

[WillParkinson]

(Hamilton) A Bermuda judge has sentenced to seven years in prison a man who slashed and hacked the face of a gay man with a machete and prompted the judge to rebuke the island government for not passing LGBT civil rights legislation.

The jury took three hours to find Rashad Cooper guilty of the 2007 attack on Shawn Nusum, 25.

During Cooper's trial the court heard that he had a history of tormenting Nusum with homophobic epithets.

Last November 15 the taunting turned to violence at a Hamilton club. As Nusum left the building he was attacked by Cooper who was armed with a machete.

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/07/070808ber.htm

[dbackjon]

1. Good for the judge

Why does Britain allow it's colonies to be so damn homophobic??

[enlightenment]

2. Why does the US government allow it's country to

be so damned homophobic?

Pot/Kettle . . . just sayin' ;)

[dbackjon]

3. I wish it wasn't. But Britian is far advanced from the U.S. when it comes to human rights

[enid602]

4. torture

We learned everything we know re: torture from the Brits, who used it unsparingly during the Northern Ireland problem.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. i want to kiss that judge...

""It is a human right of every citizen that he ought not to be discriminated against on the basis of race, his origin and such. This court can see very little difference between such rights and the rights and expectations not to be violently attacked on the basis of one's sexual orientation," he said in his ruling, the paper reported"