8 Months For A Haircut?

[nailit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-43825429
//Abdulrahim Omar, 21, from Bedford, gave the boy a "number one" haircut while others sat around and laughed, Luton Crown Court heard.//
Is it just me or does anyone else find this sentence a bit OTT?

[naomi24]

Not really. That man needs to understand that he is not judge and jury. Humiliating a child is utterly reprehensible.

[tamborine]

Should be clippers used not electric razor as that could score the lads head. A hefty fine and compo should suffice unless the ‘barber’ pleaded poverty!

[ummmm]

Considering what some people get away with it does appear OTT.

[Ken4155]

The kid was playing with a razor so the barber showed him just what a razor can do. Hmmm. The punishment by the barber was very much OTT. He got his just desserts in court, imho.

[dannyk13]

8 months for assault occasioning actual bodily harm seems reasonable.

[naomi24]

///is it OK to become the bully to punish a bully? //

Who in this incident did that?

[ummmm]

If I'm thinking of the same clip, Spath, I didn't hear the father shouting abuse.

Although I think videoing you punishing your child is bang out of order.

[naomi24]

The question is 'Was the sentence appropriate?'

[steg]

“assault occasioning actual bodily harm.”

Got what he deserved....ish

[jno]

if somebody shaved my head without my consent, that would clearly be assault; doing it to a child makes it worse, and for a barber it's abuse of a position of (limited) authority. I think that's a fair sentence.

[nailit]

I don't think that anyone would disagree that humiliating a child like that is bang out of order but people do much worse and get a lot less in the courts.

[dannyk13]

Nailit. he wasn't charged with causing humiliation, he was charged with occasioning actual bodily harm.

[ichkeria]

I wonder what Morrissey would have to say about that, given his comments recently quoted about "ethnic minorities" being given an easy time in the courts.
Takes me back to my early says, and the "razor and bible" barbers in NI.
A couple of haircuts I had inflicted on me were definitely worth custodial sentences :-)

[ichkeria]

early "days"

[jno]

that's also true...

[jno]

that was to nailit

[steg]

He is guilty of “assault occasioning actual bodily harm.”

Not quite the same as humiliating a child