Judge tells yob; You deserved that kicking!

[WelshBoyo]

Sorry if already posted but this is something you don't hear everyday.

Judge tells a yob: you deserved that kicking:-

A JUDGE stunned a court yesterday as he told an Asbo yob he "deserved a good kicking" for attacking a cop's car.
Judge Anthony Scott-Gall told binge-drinking Dexter Vidal he was "not surprised" the woman constable's two adult sons had confronted him in the street.

Neighbour Vidal, 20 - who'd had a row with his pregnant girlfriend - ripped his shirt during the fracas.

Judge Scott-Gall, 63, told the court: "I'm not surprised he was given a good kicking - it's what he deserved. If someone punched my car then I would make sure, if I had two sons, that he was given more of a good kicking."

But then the judge - who has previously blasted a couple for kissing in court - added: "Possibly not having regard to the job one holds down."

Alissa Scott-Beckett, defending, told Lewes Crown Court her client "got more than he bargained for".

Vidal, of Eastbourne, East Sussex, had earlier admitted causing £400 of damage to PC Ginny Jupp's car. He also admitted an unrelated assault, and breaching a suspended sentence for possessing a knife and Asbo for harassment. But the judge deferred sentence until March after hearing Vidal had now turned his life around.

Taken from:-
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2685120/...

[mat205125]

Article said:

Judge Scott-Gall, 63, told the court: "I'm not surprised he was given a good kicking - it's what he deserved. If someone punched my car then I would make sure, if I had two sons, that he was given more of a good kicking."

Good man!

[elster]

WelshBoyo said:

But the judge deferred sentence until March after hearing Vidal had now turned his life around.

If ever I am in court I will try that one.

Basically he can do as he likes, as he has turned his life around!!

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elster said:

WelshBoyo said:

But the judge deferred sentence until March after hearing Vidal had now turned his life around.

If ever I am in court I will try that one.

Basically he can do as he likes, as he has turned his life around!!

This judge sounds far too sensible to let him off scott free. Suppose he has to take this kind of thing in to account when sentencing him though, and I assume you has to prove he can go for 5 months without causing any more trouble.

[Jasandjules]

Nice.

I am guessing he has a nice car, and is telling would be vandals he'll kick their a*es if they touch it....

[Robert060379]

Nice car? I'd do the same if it were my rust Subaru. Make a change for a person to have the right to protect their property for a change without geting strung up for it.

[collateral]

mat205125 said:

Article said:

Judge Scott-Gall, 63, told the court: "I'm not surprised he was given a good kicking - it's what he deserved. If someone punched my car then I would make sure, if I had two sons, that he was given more of a good kicking."

Good man!

Actual when I read that!

What sort of a name is Ginny Jupp ffs?

[ymwoods]

That Judge is a legend. If we had more of him we could sort this country out. It doesn't matter if its an old rusty mini or a Veyron, these people all need someone bigger than them to come and give them a thrashing.

[Kermit power]

elster said:

WelshBoyo said:

But the judge deferred sentence until March after hearing Vidal had now turned his life around.

If ever I am in court I will try that one.

Basically he can do as he likes, as he has turned his life around!!

If he actually has truthfully turned his life around, then I think the negatives of treating him harshly at sentencing would outweigh the positives. He has, after all, already taken a kicking for it.

A bit of community service would be no bad thing, but I'd think the last thing you'd want to do with someone who has turned their life around is to lock them up with a bunch of criminals?

Of course, this is dependent in my mind on his actually truthfully having turned his life around.