warrenm2

Not as a defendant but in the public gallery! Thought I'd pop along and see "Justice in action". Situation is basically 1 female housemate sitting on sofa, 1 male housemate comes over sits on her lap, "starts bouncing" on her lap suggesting sex - shes having none of it gets him off, then he punches her twice on the **** and once in the face. Next day she goes to the GP and he says there is some damage to her head and she has a cut lip. No other witnesses, his word against hers, and she admitted to falling down the stairs a week before. When the guy was interviewed by the police he said dont know anything about it and cant remember the evening.

If you were the magistrate, is he guilty or not guilty?

Discuss...

Iain Young

Not.

Truth is he might be guilty and he might not, but if there is no evidence to prove it one way or the other, surely the only verdict you could return is not guilty...

Innocent until proven guilty as far as I thought...

warrenm2

forgot to add - what would you charge him with?

A few more guesses - and I'll tell you how it turned out and why

MattW

Common assault?

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

"housemates" !!??!!

More than meets the eye IMO

Vengence games?

David_Dickson

Im willing to guess he was prosecuted quite heavilly, although its hard to say without knowing their previous convictions - if any.

The one and only time I have been in court was many years ago for some driving offences. Fairly minor stuff really. I had to sit through several other cases before mine was called, mostly burglars, one guy atempting to defraud his insurance company, and an assault. The burglars and the assault guy were all what i would term "proper criminals" huge lists of previous conviction, the burglars houses were found full of tv`s videos etc, even though they had no jobs to pay for stuff.

At the end of the day, those found guilty before me were fined on average about £75 each and given several months to pay it, and another line was added to their list of convictions. I, as the generally law-abiding motorist with a job, was fined many many times more than this amount and was given two weeks to pay.

lordlucan

cmon warren ! tell us

Fuzz

Bloke got done for attempted rape.


P.s, Hurry up with the answer as I want to go to bed now.


Andy

rotty

knowing the british justice system , a charge of attempted rape and found guilty

imi

"Obstruction of the course of justice"

9 points on the driving license

OR

"suspicion of withholding information"

Indefinete stay in the prison on a terrorism charge.

fatherpierre

Attempted rape, in a Magistrates' Court? They can only give a max of 6 months inside.

ABH - no more than that.

Fuzz

OK then ABH if it's the max they can give...

I know nothing


And I still want to go to fooking bed.

Andy

warrenm2

He was charged with common assault (this hasnt got a prison sentence penalty) - although it could have been ABH. Not sure why it was reduced, there was enough for an ABH apparently.

He was found guilty - mainly due to the fact I think he "suddenly" remembered a whole lot of stuff in court which he didnt mention in interview. Also he refused to answer some of the prosecutors questions in court and looked like he was going to kick off at one point! Found out afterwards that apparently he was in the house cos he had been kicked out of his parents place for beating them up....

Sentencing Adjorned for PSR (reports).....

Fuzz

thank **** for that... off to bed..


Andy

warrenm2

glad to be of service!

warrenm2

Got the feeling he was just p****d cos he got turned down and lashed out!

fatherpierre

He got a result.

SiDHEaD

My mom has to write PSRs. If she doesn't like the person or they've been beating up old ladies etc she phrases it so they get a much worse sentence

Jamie

Manda po would give you a decent answer

you will find her in muppets.

fatherpierre

I wouldn't advertise that, mate. You'll put her job on the line.