Will m friends ex partner be looking at a custodial sentence for ABH & Criminal Damage?

[boroughlad]

My friend received two facial fractures (Requiring surgery to raise his check bone back into place) and numerous bruises and bleading to his face after being attacked for no reason by his ex partner. His ex partner was arrested at the scene and was charged with battery and criminal damage by the police and his ex partner is not denying doing this and in fact laughed throughout the whole incident even during the police interview but when my friends ex partner attended magistrates today these charges were raised to ABH and Criminal Damage as my friends ex partner had smashed his mobile phone and glasses to bits as well. My freinds ex partner pleaded guilty but wants to be tried in Crown Court. He was issued with a restraining order at magistrates today and the case was adjurned until 18th January 2011 to appear at crown court and he was released on bail until this date.

Will my friends ex partner be looking at a custodial sentence does anyone know?

[Richard1966]

hopefully, but it will probably de pend on if he has done this in the past and how full the prisons happen to be on the dat of the hearing

[boroughlad]

please refer to this when replying as I accidently published this question twice: http://www.theanswerb...l/Question959272.html