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Village life...
Aug. 15th, 2006 11:04 amAn update on what happened to my kid brother... he was at a mate's house, in the garden with several other teenagers (he's 16, most of the others were a bit older than him). The neighbours came around to ask them to be quieter. Apparently the neighbours considered that the best way to do this was for the father (in his 50s) and son (in his 20s) to come around armed with a baseball bat and a bottle respectively, kick the (6 foot) back gate off its hinges, smash up all the garden furniture with the baseball bat, start shoving people around, and wrap up by hitting two of the people they'd pushed over in the back of the head a few times each with the bottle.
My brother has two splits in his scalp near the base of his skull, they've been glued rather than stitched as they were fairly short. His friend had similar levels of damage. They're both okay, they've gone to stay in another village with another friend until they find out what's happening with the assailants, given that the attackers live next door to the second guy who was bottled.
Apparently the police are 'familiar' with the family in question, so they're keen to press charges. Unfortunately they seem to have decided to go for charges of 'Affray' (a public order offence rather than an assault charge) - which is considerably less serious than ABH or GBH, which is what I'd have expected them to try for. GBH with intent is theoretically anything up to a life sentence, ABH is up to five years. Affray is only up to six months (unless it goes to Crown Court), or more likely a fine - seems a bit weak under the circumstances.
I told my brother it should be me with the exciting random violence stories, living in the Big City as I do. He lives in a tiny coastal village in Norfolk, not the kind of place you expect this sort of thing to go on.
My brother has two splits in his scalp near the base of his skull, they've been glued rather than stitched as they were fairly short. His friend had similar levels of damage. They're both okay, they've gone to stay in another village with another friend until they find out what's happening with the assailants, given that the attackers live next door to the second guy who was bottled.
Apparently the police are 'familiar' with the family in question, so they're keen to press charges. Unfortunately they seem to have decided to go for charges of 'Affray' (a public order offence rather than an assault charge) - which is considerably less serious than ABH or GBH, which is what I'd have expected them to try for. GBH with intent is theoretically anything up to a life sentence, ABH is up to five years. Affray is only up to six months (unless it goes to Crown Court), or more likely a fine - seems a bit weak under the circumstances.
I told my brother it should be me with the exciting random violence stories, living in the Big City as I do. He lives in a tiny coastal village in Norfolk, not the kind of place you expect this sort of thing to go on.
