Hunt Sab ran over

[Millionwords]

It's rather weird that the outcome of the magistrates court hearing last Thursday (6 days ago) seems only to be being reported by the antis. Normally local and even national news outlets would have picked this up by now.

As a lay person, I don't seem to be able to access magistrates court records that are over 24 hours old.

Can anyone confirm that the hearing happened as the antis are saying? There's a lot of detail in the report.

Is there some sort of news blackout ?

I assumed they knew because the Victim will have been told?

Though I have no idea whether you can usually see sentences from random magistrate court dates if they aren't reported in the press...

 

[Tiddlypom]

I am so not an internet sleuth , but after following a link from gov.uk I found that you can sign up and view magistrates court hearings for the current and previous day via courtserve. It all seems legit, but doesn't go back earlier than that.

CourtServe - Live Magistrates Court Lists

Daily lists from the Crown, County & Family Courts, RCJ and Employment Tribunals for Barristers Chambers, Solicitors & Law firms

www.courtserve.net

Lists will be published at the end of each day and will be available for one day. Mondays’ lists (and Saturdays’ where applicable) will be published on Fridays.

Pretty much anyone else other than me can likely legitimately find out what happened on Thurs last week in Leicester magistrates court. It is very odd that the MSM haven't picked up on it. The incident got a fair bit of coverage at the time.

 

[Bob notacob]

Its years old ,Its not news anymore. It was a bad reaction to a bad situation . But no excuse!. So we move on.

 

[Millionwords]

Its years old ,Its not news anymore. It was a bad reaction to a bad situation . But no excuse!. So we move on.

What's years old? This occurred last season...

Do we just bush under the carpet and forget every and any misdemeanor?
“oh she beat her husband last year, don't worry we move on"
"oh the man murdered someone years ago, we move on"
"oh he Used to rob people at knife point , but that was last year, we move on."

Ridiculous.

 

[ycbm]

Its years old ,Its not news anymore. It was a bad reaction to a bad situation . But no excuse!. So we move on.

It's only just been sentenced in court Bob, its the very definition of new(s).

 

[ester]

There isn't normally an intention to kill, or even hurt, cyclists on the part of motorists though, is there? In this case the intention was to knock her down irrespective of what injury that might cause.

I think it's a very light sentence given the intent.
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Punishment passes are a thing though unfortunately

 

[Red-1]

Sentencing guidelines changed since that awful incident Red describes. It is now automatically an aggravating feature, and should lead to a harsher sentence, if the person assaulted is acting in a role in service to the community (police, fire, ambulance, doctor, etc).

Having said that, if somebody is, for example, under the influence of drugs when they commit an assault, but by the time the case comes to court they have got themselves onto a rehab program, are clean, have taken up a full time job and are about to marry a steady girlfriend who is about to give birth to their first child, then the sentence might well appear to the public to be incredibly lenient for the offence, in order not to knock that progress back off course.
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Because of the 'exceptions' mentioned, the sentencing has not changed much at all. I give a hollow laugh when I see that the young man is an aspiring chef - meaning he has gone to local college for a level 1 course because his solicitor has told him he will get off with it if he does. Then, he quits the course after sentencing. Blah.

And as for is about to marry a steady girlfriend, well I am about to be a millionaire, or about to fly to paradise or whatever... doesn't mean anyone is actually going to do something. About to, potential, aspiring... means nothing, except for sentencing.

So, little has changed, in reality.

Not at all jaded, me!