Theres liberal and theres taking the piss

[Garp]

Originally Posted by Le Hoff

Man-slaughter?! What? That's such a sad and anger filling report. I'm disgusted.

By strict legal definitions it is Manslaughter.

Murder is pre-meditated, i.e. they had deliberately set out to kill him.

In this case he was, for want of a much more appropriate phrase, collateral damage, and that makes it Manslaughter.


edit: Slightly altered variant of Matt's message sent to my own MP.