The ThunderDragon: If You Break The Law You Are A Criminal

17 July 2007

If You Break The Law You Are A Criminal

What is wrong with this story?

"A gym instructor convicted of assault has successfully appealed against wearing an electronic tag because he says it made him look like a criminal.
Lewis Beer, 21, of Cheltenham, told the judge at Gloucester Crown Court he would be refused work as the tag was visible when he wore his gym kit.
He was fired by Cheltenham Borough Council after being convicted of an assault at Moda nightclub in April.
Judge Timothy Mousley QC ordered him to do 30 hours of unpaid work instead.
In April, Beer pleaded guilty at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault.
He was sentenced to a 12-month community order, 150 hours' unpaid work and a curfew with tagging." (BBC)

If you break the law, you are a criminal. So why shouldn't you look like one? Of course, we don't know the precise story behind the assault, but the justification for the removal of the tag - that it made him "look like a criminal" - is absurd. If you break the law, you pay the price.

It is just another example of the undermining of the British justice system. But, I suppose, when 25,000 criminals are being released before the end of their sentence every year, what is one more released from their punishment before it is over, eh?

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