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awmperry ([personal profile] awmperry) wrote2005-11-10 08:17 pm

"You plead what?!"

An 18-year-old who battered someone and got done for GBH managed to get off wearing an electronic tag. Guess why?

'Ms Hughes, 18, said "I didn't want to wear a tag beacuse they are really bulky and embarrassing."'

Um, yeah. Welcome to the concept of deterrents.

Here's the BBC News article: "Tag 'too bulky' for bail woman"

...so now you know how to get off sentences you don't like.

"Oh no, yeronner, I couldn't go to prison... the paint doesn't match my complexion!"