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| 'I feel I have stepped into a parallel universe... This is ludicrous': Furious judge hits out after he has to delay sentencing three teenage robbers because they have been referred to the Home Office as potential victims of modern slavery |
| 2020-01-06 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A judge has hit out at a ‘ludicrous’ decision to refer a gang of teenage muggers to the Home Office as potential victims of modern slavery after it left him unable to sentence them. The four 17-year-olds were due to be sentenced more than a year after they robbed wallets and mobile phones from two men and posted pictures of their loot on social media. The boys, from Torquay, Devon, who were all 16 at the time, were caught committing the muggings on CCTV in 2018. They all pleaded guilty to robbery at earlier hearings – but three of the cases were referred to the Home Office by the Youth Offending Team just three days before they were due to be sentenced at Exeter Crown Court yesterday. This means it will likely be at least another month before the cases are dealt with. Some of the boys told police at the time that they felt under pressure to obey gang leader Sean Sims, now 18, who is to be sentenced separately for robbery and an unconnected assault. But Judge David Evans expressed confusion at the idea the boys could have been considered modern slaves. ‘What does this mean? That teenagers who get involved by their own free will now say they are modern slaves?’ he said. ‘They entered guilty pleas with none of them saying any more than that they were scared of Sims. I feel I have stepped into a parallel universe. This is ludicrous. We have 16-year-olds who got involved in the things shown in the footage.’ He added that to describe the boys as modern slaves would be ‘departing from the normal use of the English language’. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #1 ‘departing from the normal use of the English language’. One of the major tactics of the Left for the last 50 years. The Oliver Twist defense - |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-01-06 03:09 |