Watch the video below... Referee Phil Bentham had little option but to brandish the red card after the Wales international knocked St Helens stand-off Lance Hohaia to the ground, perhaps in frustration after knocking the ball on with a try beckoning, and then proceeded to strike his defenceless opponent with a right hook to his face.
As the parent of a defenceless daughter with profound disabilities, such stories disturb me.
The environment of a group such as Islamic State, created around a cult of extreme violence and a worldview that dehumanises all outside the organisation, can quickly turn an individual from a misguided insurgent into a pitiless terrorist killer, more than happy to execute a defenceless hostage with a knife, on camera.
The widespread popular perceptions of Israeli criminality, especially the sense of waging war against a defenceless population with modern weaponry, has prompted people around the world to propose boycotts, divestments and sanctions.
However, men do have one weapon, because, although not many realize this, women are almost defenceless against men with money.
"He's really different now," she blubbered after a chef chided her for massacring a defenceless piece of cod with a palette knife.
But the 95th PGA Championship has been on a rolling boil pretty much from the get-go, with Oak Hill - defenceless if there's good behaviour off the tees - offering scores to those who really want them.
Yet again he has caught the popular mood: many voters fear that the "managed care" firms which have all but taken over America's health-insurance industry in the past few years have grown rich by denying treatment to defenceless arthritic grandmothers and children with leukaemia.
But Aftab Jafferjee QC, for the prosecution, said: "The problem was that he never could stand up to him and to kill his father while his father was slumped at the bottom of the stairs in a drunken stupor, and thus totally defenceless, does not readily resonate with 'having the guts to stand up to him'.
She was killed right there by him with the knife, defenceless and in front of her daughter.
