Horror crime - justice is done

[steve689]

Damn right, British jails are bad enough but yank slammers seem 10 times worse, let's hope Scott never gets let out he's a scumbag. I saw him getting stopped by Ray Austin on ESPN and i cannot see how he won so many bouts as he looked awful that night.

[Boxingmad]

Heavyweight Jo-el Scott was found guilty today of battering to death an elderly woman with his bare fists in a horror crime last June.
The 33-year-old Scott testified he stumbled upon 59-year-old Dorothy Royal in a park in his hometown of Albany as two other men were beating her. In reality, he had been drinking and doing drugs all night when he raped and murdered Royal in a sex-driven, early-morning attack.
The prosecutor said everybody knew Scott in Albany - a former rising heavyweight star and convicted rapist, and he deliberately killed the only witness to his rape.
As one resident, David Barron, said: "He was monster in the ring and a monster out of it.
"I hope he remains in prison this time; that's where he belongs."
Scott turned pro after winning bronze at the 1993 world amateur championships in Finland (he was outpointed 8-0 by brilliant Cuban Roberto Balado in the super-heavyweight semis).
He reeled off 16 straight wins before he was sentenced to five years in jail in 1996 for the the rape of a 12-year-old girl.
He served four, and resumed his ring career in 2000, with mixed success. Trial horse Ray Austin stopped him in eight in his last fight in August 2003.
A big puncher, he stopped 19 of his 20 victims.



http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=025067

Isn't Albany the town where another heavyweight caused chaos both in and out of the ring? This one has been in jail before as well, although progressed more than Scott did as a pro.