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What'll that get us?

Ten years.

Nowhere near ten years.

The tariff starts there

but the judge will

knock off time for a guilty plea,

time off for no previous.

At worst, at the

very worst, six years.

We've done nothing!

I've done nothing.

He's done nothing and

he's done even less!

I'm sorry but you either take

what's on offer or you all

stand trial for

joint enterprise murder.

Could I stand trial on my own?

Afraid not.

Take six years or risk life? Yeah.

Well? What? What does he do?

I dunno. What do

you think he should do?

I don't know!

You're not getting away with it.

What? You know what.

You've never made a decision in your

entire life... You've never let me!

You have to make one now!

What do you think he should do?

I told you, I dunno! You do, but you

won't say. You want us to choose.

We choose wrong,

he gets life, you blame us.

We take the six years, you blame us for

that as well, well no, you're not on.

You tell us what you

think he should do.

Take the six years.

Take the six years?

Could you do six years?

Couldn't do a week in Butlins.

I could do six years.

It's not just six years though,

is it? You'd be saying you played a

part in that boy's death. I didn't.

I know.

I'm pleading guilty to nothing, Mum.

They can do what they want.

"Hi, we're not at home.

Please leave a message."

'Hi, it's Sheila, again.

'I know you're there,

will you just pick up?

'If you don't pick up,

I'm coming round.

'I'm coming round.'

There's Sheila.

You're wasting your time! I am not

letting my son plead guilty to

something he didn't do!

You'd sooner him stand trial for

murder? Yes!

You think he'll get off with it,

don't you? There's nothing to get

off with! He's innocent!

I'll rephrase that. You think a jury

will acquit him, right?

He stayed in the car, wasn't even

near the scene of the crime.

So therefore can't possibly be

guilty, right? Right. Wrong!

There's people less guilty

than Johnjo doing life.

Do you know what this law's about,

this Joint Enterprise Law?

It's not about innocent or guilty,

it's about getting working class

scum off the streets.

That's how they see our kids -

scum, scallies. Your son, my son...

I'm shutting this door. Gillespie

and McCabe, they'll all get life...

I'm shutting this door. You're not.

You're going to hear me out.

Put it into your laptop.

Joint Enterprise

and see what you get. Loads and...

Get your hands off my door!

..loads of innocent kids,

twice as innocent as...

Get your hands off my door! ..Johnjo

and they're all doing life.

All I did was watch my mate's

back. That's all I did.

And it's bad enough getting six

years for that,

so I'm f***ed

if I'm going to get life, Johnjo.

You'll be well looked after.

Johnjo, are you f***ing listening?

I know you've got to do a year on

your own at the young offenders'.

You can't be with us because of your

age. But after that, I promise you,

you'll be with us.

Every f***ing prison I go in I'm

gonna tell them about you, you c*nt!

Take the six, Johnjo.

You dirty, shithead,

stinking arsed grass.

Eyes in the back of your head,

that's what you're going to need.

Plead guilty to GBH, Johnjo...

You know what we do to a

grass' family?

Tell them you'll take the GBH!

We torch the bastards!

Tell them you'll take the GBH.

Johnjo. You're dead!

Johnjo! Tell them you'll take the

f***ing GBH.

They're all going to f***ing burn.

I know you can hear me!

Listen to me, mate.

Take the GBH. I'm going to

f***ing... Johnjo!

He's a haemophiliac.

We've mollycoddled him, wrapped him

in cotton wool all his life.

You think he'll survive

six years in prison?

It won't be six years.

He'll get picked on, bullied,

you know he will.

Six years for my son is not the same

as six years for the others.

Six years for my son might

as well be life

so we're pleading not guilty.

Well, in that case

I can no longer represent him.

What?!

Why isn't the pizza

manager standing trial with them?

Because they needed his statement.

The price they paid was his freedom.

They needed Johnjo's statement.

Yes.

But he gave his away for nothing.

Oh, he was honest, you mean.

A big mistake, being honest.

Yes. It's nothing

to do with Johnjo, this.

You don't want to lose.

You don't want to be seen to lose.

Mrs O'Shea, I care only for Johnjo.

If we fight and lose, he gets life.

If we plead guilty,

the worst scenario is five years

and four months.

Not six years,

five years and four months.

The best scenario -

he comes home with you today.

Kieran Gillespie,

you are charged with the murder

of Thomas James Ward.

How do you plead?

Guilty.

Colin McCabe, you are charged

with conspiracy to commit

grievous bodily harm.

How do you plead?

Guilty.

Anthony Wallace,

you are charged with conspiracy to

commit grievous bodily harm.

How do you plead?

Guilty.

John Joseph O'Shea,

you are charged with conspiracy

to commit grievous bodily harm.

How do you plead?

How do you plead?

Guilty.

You may be seated.

'Kieran Gillespie, I take 25 years

as a starting point.'

I add two for the planned

nature of the attack,

two for the fact that it was

a group attack

and two years for the vulnerability

of the victim.

I deduct three years for the absence

of an intention to kill,

two years for your plea of guilty

and two years for the lack

of parental guidance.

Kieran Gillespie, you are to be

detained at her Majesty's pleasure

for a minimum term of 24 years...

Colin McCabe and Anthony Wallace,

in each of your cases

I start at ten years.

I will deduct one year

for your previous good characters

and allow the full one-third

discount for your guilty pleas.

Colin McCabe and Anthony Wallace,

you will each go to prison

for six years.

John Joseph O'Shea,

you were 17 at the time

of the offences

and I therefore

start at eight years.

I will deduct a full one-third

for your guilty plea

and I sentence you, under

the Power of the Criminal Court Act,

to five years

and four months' detention.

Take them down, please.

Thank you so much.

You all right?

Good to see you.

How are you? Great.

Yeah? Yeah. Honest.

Nothing to worry about in here,

they're a great bunch of lads.

They leaving you alone?

Yeah!

They know I'm haemophiliac,

they know if they touch me,

then they can kill me.

It's like walking around with

a suit of armour on or something!

Mum, I'm fine. Honestly.

Right? I'm fine.

It's just a bit boring,

that's all.

Did you see the lawyer?

Yeah. And?

There's nothing he can do, Jonjo.

He said he was going to do

all sorts. I know.

"Joint enterprise is wrong,

joint enterprise needs changing,

"joint enterprise this,

joint enterprise that."

You're not joint enterprise, son.

What?

You pleaded guilty

to something else.

It wasn't even a trial.

I only pleaded guilty because

I was scared of joint enterprise.

I know.

There's nothing

we can do about it now.

Oh, well!

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