Oh, this is an easy one. It must be ''lengthy', right?
Oh...
The eight teenagers, some as young as just 14 at the time, attacked Tom Hilton, who was 17, after chasing him down "like a pack of gorillas" and setting upon him with machetes, an axe and a golf club.
Bit harsh - gorillas don't engage in tribal warfare. Chimps do, however...
Danny Yakub, Kane Taylor, Davis Hargreaves, James Meagre, Jay Dean Slater, Connor Armstrong, a 16-year-old boy and 17-year-old boy - who cannot be named for legal reasons - were found guilty of violent disorder, and others also of witness intimidation.
After the group were arrested and charged, the 16-year-old obtained footage of police interviews featuring the victim and a member of the public. He then circulated it on Snapchat, with offensive comments and emojis in a bid to intimidate them. Those posts were shared by Yakub.
During the trial the group also showed 'disrespect to the court', laughing and joking at what was going on.
Once, that would have sealed their fate for certain. But no longer.
Sentencing them all to community orders the judge said they group should be "thoroughly ashamed of yourselves", adding "but I am not at all convinced you are".
"I have to have at the forefront of my mind the fact that most of you were children when you committed these offences," Judge Philip Parry said."I hope for the sake of all your families, the public and the people who have offered you jobs and apprenticeships and the sort that you all grow up. Every one of you deserves to be sent to youth detention."
Then why didn't you? And why didn't you slap on extra time for the contempt of court?
Just looked up these mongs on Facebook. They all look the same-stupid chav haircuts, dead eyes, grey tracksuits, spotty scum.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately there are millions of them in this country and they are out-breeding the decent people.
We are doomed.
Jaded
How incredibly depressing. Having lived nearly 90 years, I really want to depart.
ReplyDelete"They all look the same-stupid chav haircuts, dead eyes, grey tracksuits, spotty scum."
ReplyDeleteI know you aren't supposed to judge a book by its cover, but in their case, I'll make an exception.
"How incredibly depressing. Having lived nearly 90 years, I really want to depart."
I've not lived that long, but I'm with you...I'm no longer sure I want to!