Opening the case on Monday, prosecutor Gabrielle McAvock told the jury: “It is a bare denial from the defendant about these allegations. The burden of proof is on the prosecution. The standard of proof is that you must be sure of the defendant’s guilt.”
And Reader, they were! Hardly surprising, mind you:
Miranda will be sentenced in October for a separate matter of distributing a class A video three times and downloading two extreme pornographic images showing people having sex with animals.
That distribution offence was committed in July 2021 only weeks after an Oxford judge imposed a community order after Miranda was found guilty of groping a 16-year-old girl while he gave a lift to her and her friends after picking them up on the Cowley Road.
A serial sex maniac.
Imposing that order, Judge Michael Gledhill QC said he would have been ‘perfectly justified’ in sending Miranda to prison – were it not for the fact he had to follow the Sentencing Council’s guidelines.
“You’re a sex pest,” the judge said. “That is what you were doing that night, sexually attracted to these young girls.”
So this time he'll get the book thrown at him, right?
Remanding him into custody to be sentenced on October 3, Judge Nigel Daly said: “I am concerned about this man. I want reports; I want reports [from the probation service] to consider dangerousness.”
If found to be a ‘dangerous offender’, Miranda faces an extended custodial sentence with a longer period when he will be on licence and supervised by specialist probation officers.
What more 'reports' do you need?
4 comments:
The Judge wants someone else to make the decisions. He cannot, then, be critised.
Perhaps his lawyer has made the point that he's never in fact harmed anyone that we know of, so it might be reasonable to look for some evidence that he's actually dangerous before sending him to prison.
Well any reports that can be used to justify as short a time in prison as possible of course. Prison time costs money but having a pervert loose in society preying on girls cost nothing. Surely the message that the justice system is a bad joke must get through to people in the end mustn't it?
"The Judge wants someone else to make the decisions. He cannot, then, be critised."
It's that what he's paid for, then? Maybe he's paid too much...
"...so it might be reasonable to look for some evidence that he's actually dangerous before sending him to prison."
You think there's a chance he's not dangerous?!?
"Well any reports that can be used to justify as short a time in prison as possible of course."
*sighs* Good point!
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