Kenner a self employed tiler was initially charged with intent to cause grievous bodily harm in August 2021 which fetches a maximum of life imprisonment but after five separate court adjournments for undisclosed reasons prosecutors eventually accepted his guilty plea in September 2023 to the lesser charge of assault causing actual bodily harm.
Yet again, the useless CPS proves themselve too lazy to do the real work.
They then recommended he faced a maximum of only two and a half years behind bars under sentencing guidelines before a further three hearings came and went whilst Kenner tried unsuccessfully to withdraw his guilty plea.
All paid for by the long suffering taxpayers, of course!
This week, 31 months since the assault, Kenner who arrived 20 minutes late for his hearing at Bolton Crown Court was ordered to complete 150 hours unpaid work and was sent on a 'Building Better relationships' programme after a powerless judge said he had 'very little option' but to let him go free.
I don't blame the judge, he's probably right.
The court heard he had already spent 11 months on remand before being bailed on a curfew to await trial and as a result under Home Office rules had already served the equivalent of a 23 month prison sentence.
This rule has to go - surely it would be a quick win for a Conservative Home Sec (if we actually had one)?
If we are always told that people on remand are 'innocent until proven guilty' then why should their time on remand be counted as part of their sentence? That should only start when they are found guilty!
