Law -
True Cases
A
couple's dream home was in ruins after four yobs
ploughed a stolen car into their front room at
3am, then ran off. Andy Slater and Wendy Dixon,
who have spent four years restoring the £150,000
house, fear it may now have to be demolished.
Andy thinks the joyriders must have been doing
90mph when they lost control on a bend at
Pogmoor, South Yorks. He said, “One minute
we had a nice home, all new, the next we have
nothing. The front is missing completely.”
Police later arrested three youths who will, no
doubt, be sentenced to spend three months
attending a rally-driving school.
Free
tickets to the Commonwealth Games were given to
17 teenage young offenders taking part in a
scheme called the Youth Charter for Sport, where
they spent a day at the GMEX centre watching
wrestling. Organisers said the project was aimed
at trying to get youngsters to experience the
spirit of the Games. The warder in charge of the
GMEX trip said, "We did not have any
concerns about it. These are just young lads who
have made mistakes and found themselves in this
situation."
An
epilepsy sufferer was ordered to pay £6,000
compensation to a student who claimed she
suffered post traumatic stress from witnessing
his contorted face during a seizure.
Guy's
Hospital, London - paid £3.2m after its
negligence left the baby of one of its own staff
paralysed for life.
A
teacher sued her former employees, East
Renfrewshire Council, for £100,000 damages,
claiming her career was cut short after she
slipped on a greasy chip, discarded in a school
corridor. She was retired on medical grounds aged
61.
A
vicious rapist who has a history of violence,
including convictions for raping a 13-year-old
girl as well as assaulting two women, is on the
run after being released from prison on licence.
A spokeswoman for the Home Office said, "The
decision to release a prisoner on licence is made
by the judge when he passes sentence or a parole
board. But everyone is fully risk-assessed before
they are released." But, despite being a
dangerous sexual offender and disregarding the
terms of his release on more than one occasion,
he was still deemed fit for release.
Shopkeepers
terrorised by 13-year-old triplets were disgusted
after the tearaways walked free from court after
being handed two-year supervision orders. The
trio have plagued the town centre in Gillingham,
Kent, for three years, mugging old ladies and
stealing from shops. They faced sentencing for
breaking earlier Anti-Social Behaviour Orders
imposed by a youth court. But JPs who had
threatened to send them away during the previous
appearance just passed the new orders, under
which the triplets must see social workers. The
magistrates, sitting in Chatham, insisted their
hands were tied over sentencing.
Though adults can be jailed for breaking ASBOs,
kids of 13 can only be locked up if they have
been convicted of at least three crimes and none
of the triplets has. JP Ann Echlin said they
needed “support”. And their mum was
ordered to pay just £15 towards the case’s
£75 costs. It was also revealed the family were
evicted from their housing association home three
years ago one of the three has been expelled from
schools four times. He mocked a social worker
during the hearing then yelled, “Mum, we
can’t do nothing in here.”
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