What is the likley sentance

[leonforrest]

My partner was involved in a pub incident 18 months ago and is going to magistrates this week. He has 3 charges against him 2 of ABH one of threatening behaviour he has pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour and the two statements between him and the landlord match. However the two other charges against dont make sense he did not speak to them or assult them in anyway they di not stay behind to speak to the police and went to the hospital several hours after the incident. ther are 7 statement 3 corrolate with what happened and 4 dont make any sense and describe a different person to my partner. He has been on bail for 18 months as the police have not got the report together and have held up proceedings. he does not have any previous and is a proffesonal person and at the time his state of mind was stressed having just lost his grandfather ( a father figure) and his marraige had broken up a week after the birth of his daughter. Anyone got any idea's?!

[cherryelm]

You say he has pleaded guilty to the threatening behaviour what about the abh charges is he going to trial,has he been found guilty. give me a few more details about what has happened on his most recent court appearences and I may be able to help.

[seatrout]

The threatening behaviour is not an imprisonable offence and your partner will be given credit for pleading guilty.

Your partner has not yet been sentenced for the threatening behaviour because the court will want to deal with all matters together.

Custody cannot be ruled out for ABH it depends on how serious the assault is - headbutts, kicking on the floor and assaulting police pub landlords etc are more serious

It sounds like he may have a defence in any event.

If convicted and given he has no previous it would have to be very serious for the magistrates to impose custody and I doubt they would do this without the benefit of a probation report

[almac1984uk]

Hi there,

When you say that two of the charges don't make sense, do you mean he is denying that they happened? If he is only pleading guilty to the former charge and not the latter two (i.e. he intends to plead not guilty to the two charges) they case will probably go to trial (at the Crown Court) where he will be able to defend himself before a jury. Either that or the two charges will be dropped at the discretion of the CPS (which is unlikely given that it's ABH).

I think i've understood what you mean here, if you think I'm confused just let me know and i'll have another look.

Best wishes