Rugby legend, Muliagatele Brian Lima, escaped a jail term last week for assaulting his former wife, Lemalu Sina Retzlaff, and her partner, Sialofi Fuatogi, outside a local nightclub. The decision was delivered by Supreme Court Justice, Her Honour Ida Malosi, last Friday. What do you think of the decision? Kerstin Ofisa asked in today’s Street Talk and this is what members of the public said:
 The only thing I’d suggest is for Sina and her husband to sort things out because they already have children that they should look at. What would the impact be on them as they grow up to be adults? I love the decision that was made. That tells us that Sina still has some love for her husband even though she was mad at him for what happened. She is hiding that love and the Court should give them the chance to sort things out again. |  I got 24 months of probation on my ex and surprisingly he changed because he is a responsible person. A person like Brian Lima should have a fit mind. The decision is not fair! What he did was disgusting. Put him in a clinic instead so he can have an operation on his brain. In my personal experience, I don’t think he’ll change. He is high profile and he’s setting a bad example for others. Put him in jail with a restriction order and of course take away his passport because it’ll still give him some freedom. That’ll teach him a lesson! |  Of course it’s not fair. Domestic Violence is a big problem in all the countries of the world but it’s always the people who have the authority who can punish and give justice to these people. If they don’t, they would just get away with it. In overseas countries, this is a very serious issue. I think it is common sense that this guy should have gone to jail instead. Serving probation will not help at all. Who knows if he’d end up killing the next woman he is to beat up. |
It’s fair enough. Maybe serving probation will help him come to his senses. Hopefully he will patch things up with his wife and reunite with their children. It happens to everyone. Here in Samoa it’s always normal for a husband to beat his wife but some of them do not even report it to the police because they love their husbands. Give him a small lesson. It’s good to make mistakes so you can learn from them. |  Being popular doesn’t mean that you can get away with things that easy. The decision is not fair for other people who beat up their wives and get thrown into jail. He should be thankful to his ex-wife because she is forgiving, if she wasn’t the reality is he would have been in jail by now. I just hope that the probation would help him come to his senses. |  No, I don’t think that was a fair decision that he just gets away with it. If he is a popular person then he should be a role model. Instead, what he did was wrong. If you put yourself in that woman’s shoes you would feel the same way. Put him in jail instead because that’ll take away a bit of his freedom. He is going to do it again if it’s just two years probation. |
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