Monday, 2 May 2011

What, No 'Mitigation'..?

A waiter who sexually assaulted two girls on a bus has been spared jail.
Was it an offence on the lower end of the scale, perhaps?
The 25-year-old man boarded the 194 bus at St David's Close, West Wickham, and sat next to the victims on the upper deck of the bus and started kissing them and touching them sexually.

Both victims, aged 15 and 16, moved before getting off the bus at Elmers End Green, Elmers End. Rahman also got off the bus and followed the victims for a short while.
Now, that's worryingly bold - taking on two victims at a time, in broad daylight, and persisting in his unwanted behaviour when they tried to flee.

So why the lenient sentence?
Mohammed Rahman was given a community order after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual touching.
That can't be it. Surely?

Unusually, there's no report of mitigation from his lawyer in the newspaper account...
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9 comments:

  1. Ranter2 May 2011 at 10:53

    As usual, love the comments from News shopper 'readers'. Strange story, would have liked to know what the mitigation was and there would have been some.

    Nasty little perv! I'm sorry Mr Rahman it's off for medical experiments for you!

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  2. Gordo2 May 2011 at 11:30

    I'll say it. The mitigation is his Asian race. Better we repatriate all Africans and Asians. They are of no benefit to our economy or society.

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  3. Anonymous2 May 2011 at 11:55

    But he may well have had mitigatings... unless his name hides the fact he's a Welsh Quaker he may well have belonged to the RoP, so therefore he was pure of heart and one of the true faith and the big sky fairy says it's okay 'cos all westerners are doomed anyway. Inshallah.

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  4. Angry Exile2 May 2011 at 14:47

    Unusually, there's no report of mitigation from his lawyer in the newspaper account...

    Maybe they're concerned that people are playing mitigation drinking games and that the phrase "My client is has had a troubled background and is disadvantaged, suffering as he has from learning difficulties, bullying, borderline ASD and ADD, dyslexia and piles, and comes from a broken home" means an entire weeks worth of alcohol units all in the same glass.

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  5. Brian, follower of Deornoth2 May 2011 at 17:16

    Angry Exile, perhaps we should have a standard abbreviation for all that; possibly TBDLDBAAD (we'll leave off the piles for now).

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  6. English Viking2 May 2011 at 20:17

    How can there be mitigation for this kind of thing?

    It is a good thing that some sleazy lawyer didn't make excuses for this pervert, just a very great shame there are morons on the bench.

    At least there is one good side to the fact that he won't be behind bars. Gives her old man the chance for 'a word'.

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  7. MILF fancier2 May 2011 at 21:10

    He was a Muslim and you have to remember that when you play Victimhood Poker Muslim Rights trump even women and children's rights.

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  8. Brian2 May 2011 at 22:13

    Can't the little scum have "Pervert" or "Sex offender" tattooed on his forehead to alert the public?

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  9. JuliaM3 May 2011 at 06:34

    "Maybe they're concerned that people are playing mitigation drinking games..."

    Heh!

    "Can't the little scum have "Pervert" or "Sex offender" tattooed on his forehead to alert the public?"

    Given the strange fashions in tattooing, it wouldn't be long before that became a craze!

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