Saturday 2 January 2021

Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied, Right?

Judge Christine Laing QC said: “This is a really troubling case. You deserve to go to prison.
“The landlady must have been terrified. When I read she still suffers nightmares, I don’t find it in the least bit surprising.
“You were drunk and high on drugs with a substantial knife trying to get into the pub. You had enough thinking capability to go home and fetch a knife.
“No amount of name calling or racist abuse can justify you doing that.”

So, a spell in the big house looms, right, your honour?

Oh. 

He was given a 16-month suspended sentence, largely because of the length of time which has passed since the crime was in September 2019.

We aren't told why it took a year to come to trial. Nor why that should mean the landlady's ordeal can be so easily dismissed.  

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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous2 January 2021 at 12:32

    The gap between the law and justice is getting wider, because, reasons.
    Penseivat

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  2. Robert the Biker2 January 2021 at 13:16

    Another baboon given the kid gloves treatment because of 'muh waycism'. Hopefully the tosser is at least banned from all the local pubs.

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  3. Anonymous2 January 2021 at 14:37

    Probably took since last September for the police to finally admit this wasn't a civil matter.

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  4. James Higham2 January 2021 at 18:11

    And that, in one is the whole issue right there.

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  5. Anonymous2 January 2021 at 21:03

    Comes from Stanmore, eh? I once saw a graffiti on a Tube map, where Stanmore was preceded by "Can't" and followed by W0gs", but I suppose after this it would have to be "Albanians".

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  6. Sgt Albert Hall3 January 2021 at 09:32

    Send him back to where he came from? Of course we can’t we are stuck with him and his progeny forever.

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  7. JuliaM10 January 2021 at 06:20

    "The gap between the law and justice is getting wider, because, reasons."

    And shows no signs of slowing down, in fact, it's accelerating...

    "Hopefully the tosser is at least banned from all the local pubs."

    Thus giving some bottom-feeding lawyer and extra large bank nalance? Paid for by the taxpayer, of course!

    "Probably took since last September for the police to finally admit this wasn't a civil matter"

    🤣

    "Comes from Stanmore, eh? I once saw a graffiti on a Tube map, where Stanmore was preceded by "Can't" and followed by W0gs", but I suppose after this it would have to be "Albanians"."

    A salutary reminder that not all grafitti is bad!

    "Of course we can’t we are stuck with him and his progeny forever."

    Our 'replacement'. I hope they like it.

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