A thug who punched a frail 92-year-old in a row over a dog has escaped jail after a court heard that a prison term would disrupt his anger management course.
Adam Strangward, 27, was convicted of assaulting pensioner Bob Savory at a hearing last month and was told he faced prison for the attack, which left widower Mr Savory scared to leave his house, according to relatives.
But Strangward was handed a suspended sentence after a judge at Peterborough Magistrates Court heard that a custodial sentence would interrupt his progress on a nine-month anger management course.
Adam Strangward, 27…
Err… right… trash assaults an old man- quite incapable of fighting back and gets…nothing.
That’s nothing…
Zero…
A 92-year old…
The ‘justice’ system system scares me sometimes… it really does.
When you see the result of another case…
A woman who glassed a male clubber that smiled at her – and then blamed the attack on the fact she was sexually harassed at work – was spared jail by a judge.
Sheona Keith threw her glass at a man in a nightclub who she thought was ‘eyeing her up’, in an unprovoked attack which resulted in him needing hospital treatment.
Sheona Keith, 22….
Words fail me…
If ever there was a group of people that NEED to be reformed it is JUDGES!!!
Anger management course? How’s that going then? I wonder who is paying for that? Beyond a joke these sentences.
I worked at a magistrates court in a rough part of London in my probation on attachment. One of the female magistrates had a daughter that got into a drugs crowd and died of an overdose.If any defendant was up for any drug-related crime they absolutely crapped themselves if she was sitting.
Perhaps if a few more judges were touched by crime they would be a bit more realistic in their sentencing?
Or their jobs depended on it?
Shij – Let’s be ‘fair’ to the young lady in your second story – the Telegraph reported that she had just been made redundant and was drinking to ‘drown her sorrows’ – which she wasn’t used to – and had forgotten she had the glass in her hand when she threw it…
VERY reasonable.
Of course…
It wasn’t anything I wouldn’t do…
I mean…
If your dog bites someone and you just pat it on the head…
What would stop it from biting again I wonder?
Some judges just need to be removed…
Google my name and read this rubbish. You idiots don’t know the facts. I lost my job and was not thinking clearly. Ok, I was looking the judge fancied me lmao because i was scared i would get jail, but i was not thinking clealy when i did it
You glassed someone because he was looking at you?
fcuk sake, what would you do if they REALLY did something to you?
You should have gone to jail.
I would have….