my mates brother got shot in the head, point blank, the guy walked up to him in a bar and pulled the trigger

he said he didn't realise the gun was loaded at the time and sobbed about it being hard to live with killing his "mate"

even though he was packing because he was a dealer and some other dealers were after him (they got busted for waiting outside the bar tooled up when the police were called)

he got 3 years in an "open" prison despite a big campaign aginst it

the rules suck

sorry to hear about your mates mate sarah