Outrage has greeted the news that 19-year-old TikTok menace Mizzy - a father of one- will be locked up for 18 weeks in a young offenders institution with children rather than an adult prison.
The 'prankster', real name Bacari-Bronze O'Garro, has been jailed for violating court orders which ordered him 'not to upload directly or indirectly, any original video content on social media, without prior documented consent of the people in that content'.In another ridiculous step for the so-called 'justice system' we have in this country, he qualifies for this soft treatment purely due to the age at which he committed the offence.
...speaking to MailOnline, Ernest Aduwa, Partner at Stokoe Partnership Solicitors explained that Mizzy's containment in the youth system was how the penal system was intended to operate.
He said: 'When deciding which prison a person is sent too (sic), it's not so much determined by any representations made by the defence solicitor at a time of sentence.
'Any mitigation put forward in relation to the offense committed - so any remorse, or any mitigating circumstances personally relating to that offence, and to that offender in particular.
'It won't affect what prison that offender is sent to.
'Young offenders institutions aren't any less of a prison than an adult prison - they're just separated from adults over the age of 21.'
Sure, sure, we all believe that, don't we?
In mitigation remarks, Barrister Paul Lennon, defending O'Garro, urged the court to consider his young age and his personal circumstances.
None of which will be a surprise:
'In terms of his family relationships, his relationship with his mother is both good and bad. He has not had any contact with his father since he was two years old.'
'His relationship with the mother of his child is difficult, but he still attempts to have as much time with his child as he can.'
Perhaps, like the well-to-do registering their young offspring for Eton, the mother should be considering which juvenile offenders institute she'd prefer the child to go to in the future?
"he qualifies for this soft treatment purely due to the age at which he committed the offence."
ReplyDeleteInteresting. So can we also lock people up based on the gender they were when they comitted the offence?
"No contact with his father since he was two years old"...and there lies the problem with a certain community...no doubt this half-wit is father of the year at 19. Let's see if his spawn follows him into prison. We all know the answer to that don't we?
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His offence: "sharing a video on X, formerly Twitter, which featured passersby without their permission at Westfield Stratford - a location he had been banned from under the court order."
ReplyDeleteMy God. Crime of the century. Young offenders institution? Luxury. Sky telly, drugs and snooker all day if you ask me. Hanging's too good for him.
-- spiro
"Interesting. So can we also lock people up based on the gender they were when they comitted the offence?"
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"...and there lies the problem with a certain community."
Spot on!
"My God. Crime of the century. Young offenders institution? Luxury. "
It's not up there with murder, no. But he's a scofflaw, so the justice system will deal with him eventually.