Rebecca Tantrum (Ed: Appropriate name!), 28, and her partner Chantelle Bennett, 30, attacked Paul Sutton in Commercial Street on July 5 last year after their dog approached the victim and his partner Louise Elliott who had been out walking their pug.
After the defendants' dog bit Mr Sutton on the arm and appeared to be trying to get to his pug he led the dog away by its chain which caused Bennett to shout at him.
She tried to hit Ms Elliott with a glass bottle so Mr Sutton pushed her to the ground. Bennett then hit him over the head with the bottle, which didn't break.
Following this Tantrum left the nearby home she shares with her co-defendant armed with a wooden-handled claw hammer and proceeded to attack Mr Sutton with it until the police arrived...
Whew! Just in the nick of ti...
...and mistakenly arrested the victim.
Wait, what?!?
Both defendants, of Commercial Street, were interviewed and both pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Tantrum also pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon and possession of a controlled Class B drug.
Lovely fragrant flowers of femininity, clearly...
The judge said he would have sent both defendants straight to prison had it not been for the delay in the case, which had not been their fault.
He said: "This case highlights how the court's hands are tied. Cases like these are taking far too long to get to the doors of the court."
Tantrum was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment suspended for 12 months and Bennett was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment suspended for 12 months.
*sighs*
Nobody doubts plod's cosmic capacity for incompetence. It was the gender of the claw-hammer swinger that had me baffled until a second viewing of the video. Even then one can't be sure about these distinctions. We live in an era of police ineptitude; 'men' demand breasts and wombs on the NHS and proper punishments are almost entirely reserved to white, middle-class motorists.
ReplyDeleteWell one looks like a dyke. Nasty little lezzers - who'd a thought it? And the victim arrested by the feckin' Heddlu? Blimey. He'll have a case. won't he?
ReplyDelete"We live in an era of police ineptitude; 'men' demand breasts and wombs on the NHS and proper punishments are almost entirely reserved to white, middle-class motorists."
ReplyDeleteQuite!
"Blimey. He'll have a case. won't he?"
Yes, to soak .... the taxpayer! It never comes out of their salaries, does it?