This will teach him!
A 16 year old almost beat a man to death. Instead of being sent to prison for attempted murder, he “avoided a jail sentence and was given a stern warning to stay out of trouble or he’d come up for sentencing again.”
The offending involved:
- Attacking the man as he lay in his bed at home
- Was armed with a crowbar
- Hit him in the face and teeth
- Fractured his leg so badly a bone stuck out
- Multiple bones broken, as hit over 50 times with a crowbar and hammer
When police arrived they found the badly injured man with his face covered in blood and a fractured bone sticking out of one of his legs.
“They hit me in the teeth … There was blood everywhere… They just laughed,” the victim would later say in court.
His staying out of trouble lasted three months. He then robbed a man, stole from a petrol station, and resisted arrest.
He went back before the same judge, who this time gave him …. 12 months home detention.
Wow, that will really teach him not to offend.