Glass a stranger for your 18th offence? Get off with community service!
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2722845/Estate-agent-21-glassed-stranger-night-spared-jail-despite-18th-conviction-assault.html
A man with that history would now be eyeing the soap on the shower floor of one of her Majesty`s guesthouses.
‘So what do you actually have to do to go to prison these days?’
A man with that history would now be eyeing the soap on the shower floor of one of her Majesty`s guesthouses.
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Stories like this just make me sick, when she finally kills someone perhaps she will get a few months - perhaps not.
I don't think libelling judges is a good idea...
Yep, she's a good looking girl. Judge probably fancied her. Happens.
Still, it keeps The Guardian readers happy.
Now that one of the national newspapers has picked up the story and identified her as being an employee won't do much good. If I were the employer, and they hadn't terminated her employment at this point, I know what I'd be doing!
I'm gathering that she made an agreement with the prosecution for a guilty plea to ABH. I suppose they may have encountered problems with the more serious charges of GBH or malicious wounding, although a 'gash' to the eyelid, I'm not so sure... I think that could have possibly been capable of a GBH conviction.
Perhaps the judge reluctantly gave her the benefit of the doubt that she was trying to get herself sorted and prison would set her back.
And what it was over.
Poor guy. That's a real kick in the teeth for him to go with his injured eye.
Which in itself is going to the other end of the extreme and is to my mind ridiculous.
Wouldn't it be poetic justice if,someday, she picked on the wrong kind of bloke,someone equally scumbaggy,who just beat the snot out of her -girl or no girl
Left or right wing has nothing to do with it except in the eyes of the deluded. I imagine you consider North Korea a left wing state, what do you think her punishment would have been there?
He said his eyes filled with tears and his vision was blurred and he saw the guy coming in for a second headbutt so just reacted, He swung his right hand which had a glass in it.
He ended up arrested for it and charged and took to court, "the victim" it turned out had a string of convictions for football related violence and on the day was on his way home from a match his team lost.
None of this could be used as evidence in my friends case, It was his first "offence" and he ended up being locked up for six months, He lost his job, home and everything over this.
Before he went to prison my friend reminded me of mr bean he was so soft and nerdy, Since he came out he has played up to the ex-con thing and has become a total arse.
I think she'd be fairly justified in thinking she's untouchable. After 18 offences and no custodial sentence she'd be forgiven for thinking there's very little consequence for whacking someone.
She might give it a bit more thought over the next two years though, with the the threat of*going to prison this time. Maybe if this had happened several offences ago that guy wouldn't have been glassed.
That is awful. How on earth can someone break another person's nose, in an unprovoked attack, and end up the victim and not answerable to his part in it!?
If that happened as described then certainly more than enough grounds for self defence. Certainly would have had to be heard before a court though, hence the decision to charge. However, rightly or wrongly, the jury clearly felt that what he did was unlawful.
What was he charged with? Assault or Affray? Presumably they were both charged with Affray? Or did the other chap get away with his actions?
Bloomin' marvelous.