Monday 4 July 2011

Fragrant Womanhood...

Following on from the 'unprovoked violence' theme started over at 'Orphans', this cautionary tale:
David Baker was left with severe head injuries after the savage beating in which he was kicked, punched and stamped upon.

The 24-year-old had reached the Central Bridge in Southampton where he had the misfortune to meet a gang coming in the opposite direction. The four had been drinking and the three men were also high on crack cocaine. They launched a ferocious attack on him, leaving him lying on the ground, before they walked off without a care in the world.
It seems this was indeed a genuinely unprovoked attack.
Although he has returned home, David will never fully recover from his injuries.

During the trial a statement from his mother, solicitor Jane Hiatt, was read out in which she described her son as “a happy, lively sociable character, who was quite outgoing, who was not violent and would never get involved in any sort of confrontation or fight”.
Which is admirable, but leaves you totally unprepared for random, hard-core violence from someone who is not just prepared for it, but actively looking for it…
Stephanie Hill, 19, and the main aggressor John Smith were overheard talking about the attack while reading the Echo.

Yesterday Hill, of Lydgate Road, Thornhill, Southampton, was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. She had admitted the lesser charge of common assault, claiming that she had not kicked David Baker hard, but denied the more serious allegation.
The jury wasn't convinced by that...
After retiring for just over three hours the jury returned with a guilty verdict.

They also found her guilty of helping to steal beer from the Co-op a few hours earlier.
Recorder Stewart Patterson rejected a bail application, noting that Hill ran off when police went to arrest her and fearing she would abscond remanded her in custody until July 22 when she will be sentenced with Smith.

He told her: “As your council (sic) has pointed out, you are likely to receive a custodial sentence.”

Hill began sobbing before she was led away.
Really think she'll received a custodial, Recorder? Really? Even though she's got previous, she's a mother. And putting her in jail would upset a lot of people, as a result.

Still, maybe that previous isn't for violence?
A teenage mother, who has admitted being part of a drunken attack on a cyclist left in a bloodied heap, has three previous convictions for assault, Southampton Crown Court heard.
One of them bearing a striking resemblance to the assault on the cyclist:
Stephanie Hill, 19, had been drinking when she attacked a middle-aged stranger, who she struck on the head and pushed, and who ended up in a river.

On another occasion she had twice kicked a police officer when she resisted police entering a flat and on the other she attacked a man in a row over drink when she feared he was going to call the police on his mobile phone.
What a charmer. I wonder how many of those fourteen child welfare and protection agencies are involved with this one?

And I wonder if even John Sentamu could 'find value' in its life?

10 comments:

Captain Haddock said...

Sounds very much to me as if Hill is well overdue for a taste of her own medicine .. Female or not ..

Oleuanna said...

I use to work for the LA's round those parts, she is just the tip of a very deep rooted incestuous iceberg.

I'm really not surprised it's not getting any better.

Lynne said...

There should be no kid gloves leniency for scum like that. How soon before one of her vicious and unprovoked attacks results in a death?

Captain Haddock said...

Once upon a time, I used to have some respect for John Sentamu ..

But the older he's got .. the dafter he's got ..

Rob said...

Have a child, get a "stay out of jail for life" card for free. Result!

Bandit 1 said...

We're going backwards, right back to the jungle. Thank you, 100 years of fucking Fabians.

JuliaM said...

"...she is just the tip of a very deep rooted incestuous iceberg."

I truly believe some areas are beyond help, and walling up the inhabitants and leaving them to their own devices would be a mercy to everyone else...

" How soon before one of her vicious and unprovoked attacks results in a death?"

It won't be of a magistrate, or any other of the ruling elite, so, there's that to consider.

"We're going backwards, right back to the jungle. "

Hard not to reach that conclusion. Eloi and Morlocks...

David Thompson said...

“It won’t be of a magistrate, or any other of the ruling elite, so, there’s that to consider.”

Time for a reality show in which lenient magistrates are given a chance to become reacquainted with some of the sociopaths they release into the world.

As new neighbours.

It needn’t be permanent, of course. Just an entire summer.

David Thompson said...

We could call it Third Chances, or Starting Afresh. Something upbeat.

And we could have an annual leftwing celebrity version. The first of which would begin with Polly Toynbee peering through the drapes of her commodious £2.4 million townhouse as a large moving van pulls up next door...

Anonymous said...

Continuing DT's theme...

Cue Geordie voice-over:

Polly peers anxioulsy through the venetian blinds as Wayne and Waynetta and their two children, Chlamydia and Tyrone, open the gate next door. Wayne hawks a gobbett of phlegm at Polly's front window. Polly mutters something about digusting chavs under her breath.