(real tears)
But three years for the kid? Call me hard hearted but I think that's way too much for what he did.

From http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/
I've no regrets.. I'd do it all again
Nov 28 2004
By Emily Andrews, Sunday Mercury

A teenager who killed the neighbour who raped his mum spoke for the first time from prison last night and said: "I've no regrets."
But in an emotional phone call to the Sunday Mercury, Marc Bick said that he never meant to kill sex beast Derek Duffet.
"That man attacked my mum in our house," the 17 year-old said. "In some respects, he deserved what he got.
"But I didn't mean to kill him. I was just so angry and upset. I wasn't really thinking straight.
"I don't blame my mum for me being in prison because I love her. I'd do the same again if I had to."
Bick, from Newport, Shropshire, was 16 when he discovered that drug addict Duffet had attacked mum Yvonne, 48, after threatening her with a wrench.
Angry and confused, the teenager vowed revenge and confronted the brute a week after the December 20 attack.
When Duffet sneered "For f*** sake, it was only a bit of fun," Marc lashed out in fury with a cricket bat.
Duffet, 40, slumped to the floor where he banged his head - and died three days later.
His death was due to the fall, not the blow from the bat.

A-level student Bick, who got 10 GCSEs this summer and wants to eventually set up his own gardening business, was originally charged with murder.
But that was reduced to manslaughter, which he admitted at Stafford Crown Court earlier this month. He was jailed for three years.
Bick, currently in Stoke Heath Young Offenders' Institution in Market Drayton, Shropshire, added: "I don't regret doing something about the situation because he raped my mum.
"But I do regret that Duffet died because I honestly never meant to kill him.
"I was really worried about going to prison because I have never been in any kind of trouble before.
"But it's better than I thought it would be. I thought it would be really tough and I wouldn't be able to cope.
"Before all this happened things had been going really well.
"I was going out with a nice girl and I'd been going to college which I really enjoyed.
"I'm carrying on with my A-levels in here and I'm also doing gym. It's OK in here and I just have to get on with it, although Christmas is going to be weird without my family.

"I want to say thanks to everyone who has been on my side. I think 98 per cent of people would have done a similar thing if they had been in my situation."

Bick and Duffet had known each other well - they used to play chess together and go fishing at the nearby lake.
But 5ft 2ins mum Yvonne never suspected that her neighbour would subject her to such a horrific ordeal.
She told the Sunday Mercury: "Derek had popped round for some chicken. I would often give him bits of food because I felt sorry for him.
"I went into the outhouse to get some food out of the chest freezer and stood on a box to reach in. He followed me out there, held a wrench to my neck and then raped me.
"I couldn't scream because I didn't want my youngest son, Paul, to wake up and be scared. I didn't want to tell anyone. The children just thought I wasn't feeling very well."
Yvonne kept the attack from her eldest son, his sister Mikayla, now 16, and Paul, 11, believing that it would spoil their Christmas celebrations.

But Duffet started boasting about the way he had raped her, and Bick became suspicious after finding his mother crying.

Eventually, Yvonne told him what happened.

"Marc was so angry that he started sobbing," she said. "He was devastated but angry at the same time. He said he was going to get Derek - but I tried to stop him.

"He went round and Derek grabbed him by the shoulders. Then Marc hit him and, as he fell, he hit his head. He died three days later of his injuries.

"The doctors said if he hadn't been taking drink and drugs then he probably would have lived.
"Marc just wanted to hurt him, never to kill him.
"I really miss Marc and Paul misses him, too. He cried when Marc went to prison.
"But I'm glad Duffet is dead. He deserved it.
"Marc killed to protect me and I'm very proud of him. Rapists are lower than the low."

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thats fucking wrong poor bloke was only protecting his mum

that scum didnt deserve to live deserved to die

 

i would of done the same. ppl like that deserve a good beating

 

I'd have done the fucker in too. Don't think I'd have taken a bat round though. Probably get more satisfaction from hurting the bastard with my bare hands.

 

Good lad IMO. Someone did that to my mum I WOULD mean to kill them. simple.

He'll probably get out way before 3 years anyway tbh.

 

Should of burned the body and buried the remains.

 

not like he hit him 100 times either! tbh im shocked he went to prison for it! i would have done the same - if not worse!

 

I read this too. I'd have killed the fooker and distrubuted his remains where they would NEVER be found.......

 

what a coont

that guy deserved to die and the poor son now has to loose 3 yrs of his life, and it aint gonna be easy on the mum too.

 

I'd do the same. Respect to the lad for proudly telling it like it is.

There should be a section of the law dealing with cases like this, how is a teenage lad supposed to control himself in this situation? Same as seeing a granny get mugged, you are going to defend them and you won't be in the right state of mind.

 

would of been better if the rapist went to jail so that some big scarey pyscho could rip him a new arsehole, so he new what fookin frightened and degraded felt like, fookin death was to good for him

hope the kid comes out of jail asap ....comes to something when you can't even protect your family in there own home


Pugo

 

I would have killed that junkie son of a bitch, and I'd have made sure he suffered. Something is very wrong in this country where u can't protect your own family ! I feel sorry for that guy, but he proberly has alot of respect for himself and doesn't seem to be getting it to bad
In teh States, you could just shoot the fucker and be done with it

 

i can quite honestly say if anything remotley like that happened to any of my family id do the same, although id prob have the intention to kill him, id certainly regret it but theres no way id be able to stop myself

i dont fancy the next 10 odd yrs in prison but i would be happy unless the fooker was dead

 

thats bang outa order, no way he deserves that, i,d do the same to any1 who hurt any of my family

 

i still find it hard to beleive stuff like this is really. i just cannot, cannot comprehend how a human being can do stuff like this... its beyond me... i mean it is so wrong...

i think the boy definitely has nothing to be ashamed of, i know we all get angry and hell, if someone raped my mum i would want to do something about it.

poor guy i want to send him a christmas tree and a turkey xx

 

fair play to the lad,i would have done the same in his situation,

 

good lad, done right imo

 

Ditto the comments

 

yeah he did doi right, can anyone get his detaills to send him a card or somink for christmas


i would do the exact thing ,,

this if a load of strangers send him stuf he will realise hes not the enemy and a old coffin dodger who deicides peoples lifes has never had this situation, fucking judges