A thug who publicly beat his pregnant girlfriend in the street and flogged her with an electric plug and lead has been sent on a Government programme to help him build 'better relationships'.
Yeah, it's the bloody Minshull Street Crown Court female justice cadre yet again...
Hibbert, also of Droylsden, had a previous 12-year history of violence towards an ex-partner and loved ones and was said to have 'issues with power and control'.
You don't say..? Well, surely, female judges aren't going to stand for that sort of nonsense.
Are they?
In mitigation his lawyer Michael Johnson said: 'This is an extremely unattractive set of offences, committed by a man with an extremely unattractive record for violence.
'But this man has been in custody for over nine months and that’s the equivalent of an 18-month sentence. In terms of punishment, that can be advanced as already being delivered.
Well, that's not the usual excuse, is it..? Ah, but he was just warming up:
'He has a history of violence at perhaps not the highest level, interrupted by the imposition of prison sentences, which do not seem to have any effect on changing the defendant’s behaviour. He hurts someone. He goes to prison. He comes out. He hurts someone else, and he goes back to prison. It continues. Intervention will assist him and address the issues that mostly underlie this offending.'
You think? Seems to me the problem isn't in the 'going to prison' bit, it's in the 'coming out' bit!
Sentencing Hibbert the judge Miss Recorder Kate Cornell told him: 'These assaults took place against a background of coercion and a toxic relationship. You are a 30-year-old man with multiple convictions.
'You have a history of domestic issues with a previous partner and family. You struggle to cope with stress and do so through violence. You have issues with power and control. But you have had no intervention from probation for some years and clearly, this has not been helped by short periods of custody.'
So make the next one a longer one...
"Seems to me the problem isn't in the 'going to prison' bit, it's in the 'coming out' bit! "
ReplyDeleteAnd the weird fact that when he gets out, he manages to get a new girlfriend to abuse. How does he keep pulling them?
So the message here is that beating women, pregnant or otherwise is quite OK in Britain today. Our so called justice system continues to plumb new depths on a regular basis.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable. I appreciate a recent murder ought not to influence sentencing for other crimes, but what Is the point of this soul searching about female victims of violence if we won't properly sentence obvious wrong 'uns?
ReplyDeleteMC
Don't any of these women have fathers? Because if this guy had assaulted my daughter in this way, he would die horribly.
ReplyDelete"And the weird fact that when he gets out, he manages to get a new girlfriend to abuse."
ReplyDeleteI think the most important safety tip to teach young girls these days is how to use Google!
"Our so called justice system continues to plumb new depths on a regular basis."
I'm very much afraid it's an abyss with no bottom...
"...but what Is the point of this soul searching about female victims of violence if we won't properly sentence obvious wrong 'uns?"
Well, quite!
"Don't any of these women have fathers?"
Maybe they have 'daddy issues' of quite another sort? It might explain a lot...