Daren Timson-Hunt targeted a woman wearing a summery dress on the London Underground as she went for a job interview last year.
Dad-of-one Timson-Hunt, of Broadstone Road, Stanford-le-Hope, was spotted by a police officer hiding his phone between his legs and taking a picture up the lady’s dress “four or five times”.
And what does this pervert do?
Now a disciplinary tribunal has agreed not to strike off from being a lawyer again (sic). The tribunal accepted his argument that it was a “heat of the moment” decision as a result of work pressure and was instead suspended for six months.
Why is someone under such 'work pressure'..?
The panel added: “It is clear at the time that the respondent was working very hard. He was working on the goods related aspects of Brexit and he told the Tribunal that it was not uncommon for him to work 80 hours a week.”
Wow! The list of things Brexit gets blamed for is off to a good start, isn't it?
The tribunal heard he now does manual work and his earnings are limited and that he showed genuine remorse, but also undermined the profession in the eyes of the public.
I'm...not actually sure that's possible?
Someone once said that lawyers are the larval stage of politicians. Maybe this particular lawyer, who has most definitely crossed the line when it comes to acceptable behaviour and carried out an offence of a sexual nature, is the larval stage of a future much more serious sex offender? At the very least he should have been suspended for a year not six months. What gets me is the excuse given that he has been working 80 hour weeks and this was a contributory factor in this incident. Lots of people work long hours in arduous jobs yet the vast majority of them don't do upskirting pictures on trains do they?
ReplyDeleteWhat a country we live in. If you work hard it's OK to be a pervert, or does that only apply to the legal profession? Could it be that if your a plumber or a dustman working long hours these privileges don't apply to you. Some animals really are more equal then others then, especially if you are a pig I recall.
ReplyDeleteTry and get a lawyer to prosecute a lawyer. Even a prosecuting lawyer, when the defendant is a lawyer, would pull punches so that the offence would not seem so serious. In this case, the feelings of the victim, being humiliated and considered no more than a piece of meat, would rarely retaken into account. As a (now retired, thank goodness) Police officer, I found that both the prosecuting CPS and the defence briefs were often following their own agenda.
ReplyDeletePenseivat
"Someone once said that lawyers are the larval stage of politicians."
ReplyDeleteHeh! It's funny because it's true!
"Some animals really are more equal then others then, especially if you are a pig I recall."
Indeed!
"Even a prosecuting lawyer, when the defendant is a lawyer, would pull punches so that the offence would not seem so serious."
Professional courtesy? Or quid pro quo?