Recorder Bartlett told him: 'When I came into court I thought I would have to pass a prison sentence you would serve immediately.
'You have breached community orders, bail, and driving orders.'Oh noes! Surely not...a prison sentence! This one hasn't racked up nearly enough convictions, surely?
How awful for you, Bartlett! Do you need counselling?
Yes, I know the habitual criminal in front of you led police on a high speed chase along the wrong side of a dual carriageway while smoking cannabis but surely you won't be forced to send him to prison?
'But your solicitor has made the telling point that people with your history of bad driving and bad criminal behaviour don't reform overnight.
'They need a lot of help and encouragement and they get that from the probation service - long may it remain so.'Whew! The defence to the rescue! Lucky for you they always have such plausible excuses, eh?
'In the circumstances, having agonised about this - and I don't think anyone could criticise me for giving you a ten months sentence to serve straightaway - I am going to suspend it.'
He added: 'I am not all that confident that you are going to make it work but I hope so.'Well, I think you're wrong about no-one criticising you for it, but it's nice to see you have hope. We all need hope, don't we, Recorder Bartlett?
Lodge, who posed for photographers outside court, was also banned from driving for three years, ordered to do 60 hours unpaid work and attend a 22-day 'thinking skills' programme.Oh, how nice to see the 'Thinking Skills' course again!
Hopefully, when he attends it, they'll tell him that if you are going to 'pose for photos as you leave court', it's a good idea to feign remorse:
Remorse FAIL!
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Not that one wishes Recorder Bartlett ill, but one begins to think he is hoping to carve his name in the Book of Posterity as Patron Saint of Eternal Optimists .... Mind you there is always the very long shot possibility (based on the "Hey,the Muppets have let me off with a lightly slapped wrist yet again ..." post court photo) that a further dose of Community Service and being banned from driving (yeah, right, that is going to stop him getting behind the wheel) will finally convince this oxygen thief to mend his ways ... odds about 10,000 to 1 at best ...
"banned from driving for three years"
That'll show him!
Unfortunately this scrote has never had a licence so this part of his "punishment" - much like the rest - is just chin music. I sympathise with the police and the CPS here: why bother to go to the expense and hassle of bringing a prosecution when the Bartletts of this world fail to do the necessary, let alone the obvious.
Hopefully the next person he crashes into will be Mug Bartlett.
"having agonised about this"
Bet you didn't, you preening wanker.
Might as well cut to the chase and have the judiciary on their knees, hands clasped, crying ptifully and begging filth to behave...while they laugh.
It'd save a shitload of time and money yet have the same results as this daily farce.
"I'm a lucky boy" says the twit seen leaving court dressed like a 12 y/o. Except...The 27-year-old admitted dangerous driving and driving without a licence.
27! This is an adult and should be dealt with as such. Slapping his wrist and making him sit of the naughty step isn't helping him, its reinforcing and excusing his childish behaviour.
And its not as if he hasn't been in trouble before.
XX John Pickworth said...
And its not as if he hasn't been in trouble before.
(From your link)
YY Mr Huguenin, WHO TEACHES DRAMA at Malvern College YY XX
Of fer FUCKS sake!!!
"...odds about 10,000 to 1 at best ..."
That low?
"I sympathise with the police and the CPS here: why bother to go to the expense and hassle of bringing a prosecution when the Bartletts of this world fail to do the necessary, let alone the obvious."
Me too. *sigh*
"This is an adult and should be dealt with as such."
Well, a modern version of an adult. Not that much distinguishable from a child, and not just in his manner of dress...
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