Is This Really Justice

[bazwillrun]

or just another example of the out of touch living in cloud cuckoo land people that are supposed to be working protecting us from this sort of scum ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2293284/Toby-Hayden-spared-jail-beating-Loretta-Butterworth-card-declined-cash-machine.html?ICO=most_read_module

[anotheoldgit]

/// A thug who attacked his girlfriend in the street has walked free from court after magistrates told him a community sentence is ‘tougher’ than prison. ///

Then obviously the magistrates know what we all know, and that is the fact that Prison is too soft.

[anotheoldgit]

Oh I better edit that, before the usual crew get the wrong interpretation.

Change "what we all know" to read "what some of us know".

[emmie]

that isn't justice, not by a long way, what an absolute bstard.

[AliceTickband]

probably would have been a different outcome if the poor girl was a relative of the magistrate in question.....

put me in charge of the prisons and they will no longer be seen as the soft option.

[jake-the-peg]

I absolutely can't see why he shouldn't have received a prison sentence.

There are a number of aggravating factors

He hit her multiple times
He kicked her
This was not a first violent offense

Apparently he has pschological problems, but that's not enough to warrent a non-custodial sentence.

Looks to me like a classic case of where the CPS needs to appeal the sentence

[jake-the-peg]

It gets better:

//The court heard Hayden left his girlfriend lying on the floor and went to his parents' house where he was arrested after also assaulting two police officers.//

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-21788147


Often you see stories where they've been spun by Newspapers seeking a 'cornflake spitter'

This doesn't look like one of those cases

[Gromit]

More info on the case here...

http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/10288780.Thug_beat_up_his_girlfriend_because_ATM_wouldn_t_give_him_any_money/

[emmie]

i wonder at the stupidity of some of our judiciary.. look at the state she is in, poor woman, what a coward he is

[emmie]

from that link

Moses Tawo, defending, said Hayden had lost his job as a highways maintenance worker because of the charge.

He said. “There has been genuine remorse.
“His way of explanation is his alcohol abuse. It isn’t domestic violence, it is a random assault. He would come back from prison full of problems and there would be a vicious circle.

“Mr Hayden is a very sick man medically and psychologically and he needs help.”

he is still a bstard no matter...

[Brancaster]

Why on earth was such a serious assault allowed to be dealt with at a lower court. An assault of this seriousness must be dealt with at the Crown Court. The CPS should have insisted on indictment.

[bazwillrun]

Moses Tawo should hang his head in shame, but no doubt hes as pleased as punch at the outcome, hes managed to keep this low life out on the streets.

[chaptazbru]

Pity he wasn't drowned at birth.

[FredPuli43]

Moses Tawo didn't pass the sentence. He's employed to do the best for his client. He won't be 'pleased as Punch' or, at least he won't be if he's like the normal defender, all he'll think is that he's done his job.

The Magistrates have great faith in anger management. They should have put him straight inside and activated the suspended sentence on top. They can reserve anger management for when he does criminal damage or some other crime in anger which does not involve thumping people.

[emmie]

never understand this at all, never...