Judge stuns courtroom by telling ASBO yob he 'deserved good kicking from victim's sons'!!

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Judge stuns courtroom by telling ASBO yob he 'deserved good kicking from victim's sons'

 

 

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 5:15 PM on 15th October 2009

 

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A judge stunned a courtroom when he told an ASBO thug he 'deserved a good kicking' for punching a woman police officer's private car.

Speaking off-the-cuff, Judge Anthony Scott-Gall told binge-drinking Dexter Vidal he was 'not surprised' the WPC's two grown-up sons had confronted him in the street after he attacked their family car.

Judge Scott-Gall told the court: 'I'm not surprised he was given a good kicking, it's what he deserved.

 

 

 

Drunken thug Dexter Vidal 'deserved a good kicking' for punching a policewoman's family car, Judge Anthony Scott-Gall said

 

 

 

'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 the judge added: 'Possibly not having regard to the job one holds down.'

After dealing with the case a sentencing hearing at Lewes Crown Court, the judge turned to the press box and said: 'Lest the press think the judge conducts a vigilante campaign against people that terrorise his neighbourhood and his car, he doesn't and they haven't - and I have one son, not two.'

Vidal, 20, of Eastbourne, East Sussex, took out his frustration on PC Ginny Jupp's car after a late-night row with his pregnant girlfriend who lived next door, causing £400 worth of damage, the court heard.

 

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At an earlier hearing, Vidal admitted criminal damage plus an unrelated charge of assault and breaching a 12-month suspended prison sentence and a two-year ASBO.

Vidal insisted it was merely a coincidence that PC Jupp was the Eastbourne ASBO co-ordinator who had overseen his original order, handed down by Hastings magistrates for harassment and intimidation in April 2008.

Alissa Scott-Beckett, defending, told the court her client had come off worst after tussling with PC Jupp's family over the damaged car in April this year.

She said: 'He perhaps got more than he bargained for, receiving injuries himself by Mrs Jupp's family coming out and restraining him.

 

'Once again the offence was alcohol-fuelled as all of them seem to be. There was not any deliberate targeting.'

 

Vidal, a former hospital cleaner who has previous convictions for disorderly behaviour, resisting a police officer, theft, shoplifting and criminal damage.

He was arrested after telling PC Jupp's son, Gareth: 'You better not be here when I get back.'

Judge Scott-Gall had already spared Vidal prison in February 2008 for having two knives in a gang fight, suspending a 12-month prison sentence for two years.

After hearing how Vidal had now stopped drinking, got a job and turned his life around, he gave him one final chance to stay out of jail, deferring sentencing on his latest convictions until March.

Judge Scott-Gall said: 'I'm minded to defer sentence to see whether he continues in employment, abstains from drink, keeps the law of the land, that he complies fully with he ASBO and causes no trouble to Mrs Jupp and her family.

 

'If he stays out of trouble and can convince me that these appalling bouts of binge drinking are in the past then he's going to have to live up to his responsibility as a law-abiding parent.

 

'Merely blaming drink and the unexpected pregnancy of your partner is no excuse, as you appreciate.'

Judge Scott-Gall, 63, has been a circuit judge since 1996.

Three years ago, he blasted an amorous couple for kissing in court, telling them: 'Will you two stop that, you're not permitted to snog in court.

'It's not the back row of the cinema.'

 

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[Guest howyousawtheworld]

Too right. If I was judge I'd call him worse!

[mc_squared]

Time to bring back the stocks, I say.......................... :rolleyes:

[Guest howyousawtheworld]

Time to bring back the stocks, I say.......................... :rolleyes:

 

Yeah. Then we can sort out Broken Britain!

[Saffire]

They always get most offended when it's their own property/people who are the victims of crime.

 

In America, your life is pretty much over if you so much as dent a police car or play a joke on a cop. They will come down on you with the force of 1000 locusts.

 

And then if the cops fail, and you or your loved ones are attacked by criminals, they'll just shrug and say "oh well". And you still have to pay "your" taxes the next year. Some service.