[Margaret Pilkington]

While some of what you say is true......the trial has been televised......so it has been possible to hear the evidence as it was given.
This is different from some trials where the media report what has gone on.

A girl is dead, her family have been robbed of the joy of seeing her marry, have children.....etc.
The only person who really knows what happened that night is OP.....he has to live with this for the rest of his life. This event will follow him for the rest of his life.....he will be known for it, remembered for it....possibly long after his celebrity as a sportsman is forgotten.

I don't get why a man would go into a bathroom and fire a series of shots without first making sure the girl in his life was safe.....telling her to hide if he thought that there were intruders on the premises.

I cannot see how you could fire so many shots and not think that it would kill whoever was behind the door.... So there was intent to kill whoever was behind the door.

I do not envy the judge her job, but I think if the person in the dock had not been a sporting star then the outcome and the sentence would be different......and that isn't justice.