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Hi guys please can u like this facebook page if u have it and leave any positive comments for Christopher so his family can see people are supporting him x www.facebook.com/SupportForChristopherMcGee?fref=ts

i dont have FB but will ask daughter's later when they get in from work .

MCAT is illegal now but at the time of this incident it was legal.

How people can say he has no blame is beyond me. He gave the signal to move the train whilst she was leaning on it and showing now sign of moving away. He may be a good guy and but jail is the only option.

Saying its this person's fault and that persons is stupid. Are we going to start blaming the person who sold her the shoes because they hindered her balance?

In my eyes he is the main cause of her death.

No matter what she was on or what she had drank...he should never have given the signal for the train to move off, there was no one blocking his view of her, she was the only person on the platform and he could clearly see she was leaning on the train !!!!

what people are saying is there were ALOT of factors on the night that people should or shouldnt have done!!!and yes he made the decision to move the train but he has to live with that decision for the rest of his life!!the pubs where she had been drinking have broke the law by serving this girl,also she was suposidly falling over in the ticket office so if she was in that state should the guards at the ticket office have let her down near a electric train track????a taxi driver certainly wouldn't take anybody in that state so why should she be allowed near a train track!!!!so in fact it was a number of errors that caused her death that night and not fair to lay the blame with one man!!merseyrail as a whole failed!

I've seen people leaning on the train before saying good bye to their friends and when it starts moving they actually move back! it was her fault for being so drunk and drug fueled that she couldn't even stay steady. It's not anyone's fault but the mothers to make sure her 16 year old didn't get in this state. Like i said in an earlier post children at that age need discipline and authority figures to guide them, not "friends" as parents that let them go out getting pissed and drugged up. Liverpool is a dangerous place of a night when going out drinking it's no place for a 16 year old girl....

The guard was the last person to let her do as she pleased so he has to take some responsibilty for this.

But what about all of the people who contributed to the state she was in and where she ended up? On a train platform drunk and drugged? They also let her do as she pleased, where was their concern for her welfare?

Surely it's unjust to convict just one man for this tragic incident?

McGee had received a police caution in 2009 for growing nine cannabis plants at his home in Wallasey, Wirral from what I've seen if he didn't give the signal to go she would still be alive. Everyone is going on about her being on drugs what about him

That's what got her into that state drink and drugs and that's what caused her death so it will be talked about a lot. So it's started then, dragging up the past... Regardless of what he did in the past it had nothing to do with what happened

it was a caution and they were not his plants and he has to take random drugs test in work so dont u think if he was on drugs it would have been detected? and lets face it pot is nothing in comparison to mcat not that am condoning drugs i just dont like to see this used against him x

[quote=Chorizo]MCAT is illegal now but at the time of this incident it was legal.

The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2010 was passed by parliament, making mephedrone and other substituted cathinones, Class B drugs from 16 April 2010. So it was well before this incident that it was made a Class B.

So it was illegal for her to have taken it.

No the main people responsible are the Parents and her friends. Parents for allowing her go out to drink at the age of 16, and her friends for allowing her to get in that state and allowing her anywhere near a train!

Don't get me wrong the guard was to blame in some way, but if her parents and friends looked after her properly the guard wouldn't of ended up in prison and she would of still been alive! You can't just sentence 1 person when there is many factors!

On Saturday I went up the fellas on guard duty at the gates at Moorfields and told them of the level of support and feelings of people on this site, and they offered their thanks and appreciation.

Glad to see there are some sane people on here.

A child over 5 can drink alcohol at home,
and an adult can buy you alcohol in pubs etc if you're 16 and over.

It is not illegal to be under the influence of the drug, even though it was banned a few months before.

Georgia had not broken any law.

It is illegal to grow cannabis plants though, and if they weren't for his own use, he must have been dealing.


Even if a person is paralytic on drink and sky high on kitchen vim with a
blind parrot on their head,
if they are leaning on the train, the guard should not have gave the all clear.

What if he'd killed someone who was leaning on the train because they were disabled,
or someone who'd had their drink spiked or an elderly person in distress?

His job and duty is to make sure it's safe for the train to move, it wasn't.

He is guilty of manslaughter and deserved a prison sentence.
Five years may seem harsh to some, but that's because they compare it to poor
sentecing in murder cases.

His actions caused someone to die, he'll serve 30 months and get on with his life.
Georgia's family and friends will serve a life sentence.

People who are jumping on the bandwagon and defending him should be ashamed.

One simple question, should he have given the all clear signal? ................NO