Executive brands his wife with an iron, gets off scot free

madashell "KSW, LOL"
Posts: 3112 Joined: 19-06-06 Location: Merseyside
Submitted by madashell on 22 August, 2007 - 13:25.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=476644&in_page_id=1770

Quote:
A management consultant branded his wife with a hot steam iron because she had failed to press his shirt.

Cambridge graduate Colin Read, 25, also slashed her with a knife because she had forgotten to make his sandwiches.

But the £90,000-a-year executive walked free from court - with just a £2,000 fine.
[...]
A report recommended a community service order, but Recorder William Featherby questioned how Read would fit it in around his long working hours.

He said he was concerned that Read had denied the offences despite overwhelming evidence and he called the iron attack "appalling".

But the judge said it was the circumstances of the marriage that had provoked Read and that now those circumstances had gone, sending him to prison would "help no one".

Incredible, just fucking incredible.

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
Posts: 10742 Joined: 09-12-04 Location: Belfast
22 August, 2007 - 13:35

fucking hell!

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
Posts: 10742 Joined: 09-12-04 Location: Belfast
22 August, 2007 - 13:47

I suppose it's just a moment of madness - the kind of thing that happens all too often when wives fail to press shirts

the button "jesus christ, john, have you actually even read any marx?"
Posts: 5636 Joined: 07-07-04 Location: Lewisham, London
22 August, 2007 - 13:55

I read this story yesterday. What a cunt.

Joseph K. "the thinking man's idiot"
Posts: 8524 Joined: 14-03-06 Location: Brighton
22 August, 2007 - 14:10

angry angry angry

maybe we could track him down and brand him with a hot hammer and sickle or something. since it would be an understandable reaction to the cunt getting away with it, there'd be no point sending us to prison since the circumstances would have changed.

Steggsie
Posts: 177 Joined: 16-10-06 Location: Portsmouth
22 August, 2007 - 14:35

http://www.linkedin.com/in/colinread

Please don't take the law into your own hands, anybody.

revol68 ""Identity is a dream pathetic in its absurdity. You dream of being yourself when you've nothing better to do""
Posts: 17788 Joined: 23-02-04 Location: Belfast
22 August, 2007 - 15:14

jesus fucking christ.

Surely the judge will be booted?

Lone Wolf "An explanation is not the same as an excuse. "
Posts: 4352 Joined: 01-03-06 Location: E. London UK
22 August, 2007 - 18:36
revol68 wrote:
jesus fucking christ.

Surely the judge will be booted?

Not nec - its pretty hard to unseat a judge. However atrocious their actions.

JK liking your style. smile

Steggsie. I notice he ommitted branding and stabbing from his interests. neutral

Prolly the most notorious case in legal history in living memory in terms of rank sexism is the "contributory negligence" case. Anyone familiar with that one? A young girl - about 16- due to an unfortunate set of circs found herself without a lift one night stuck out in the country. The man who offered her a lift raped her. He was found guilty but the punishment was a desultory fine only as the judge ruled she had contributed to her own negligence in being desperate enough to accept a lift. twisted Also he was a wealthy businessman who drove a red flashy sports car and was considered to be "of good character". twisted There really appear to be no limits at all to the depths certain characters will stoop in order to maintain patriarchy. These cases are truly frightening.

Love

LW XX

welshboy "...a stain upon the heroic history of anarchism."
Posts: 369 Joined: 11-05-06 Location: Weegie Land
22 August, 2007 - 18:58

The judge that sent me down, Prosser, apparantly once said that a rape victim should go on holiday with the rapist and sort things out. angry According to one of the lads in the holding cells ant way. Notorious bastard of a circuit judge. Bastards the lot of them.

dara "a diversion away from class politics"
Posts: 346 Joined: 16-07-05
22 August, 2007 - 20:33

i see mr read is experienced in tae kwon do. no doubt well trained in the correct defense when confronted with a crumpled shirt.

wraeth "He's ---> revol68"
Posts: 343 Joined: 18-05-07 Location: East London
23 August, 2007 - 01:28
revol68 wrote:
jesus fucking christ.

Surely the judge will be booted?

He's not even a judge, revol. He's a Recorder (gotta have 10 years experience as a barrister or solicitor). One of them low- level- manage- to- make- it- to- circuit- judge- at- some- point types.

Oh and a swift search of the Bar Council directory reveals:

Quote:

Mr William Alan Featherby
12 King's Bench Walk
Temple
London
EC4Y 7EL
Email: chambers@12kbw.co.uk
Telephone:
020 7583 0811
Email: featherby@12kbw.co.uk
Position: Recorder
Date of Call: Nov 1978
Inn of Court:
Middle Temple
Qualifications:
MA (Oxon)
Pupil Master, Recorder

Pupil Master, eh. Making sure that the up and coming new generation trainee barristers eventually continue in the tradition of fining wife beaters/abusers to the tune of a massive 2.2% of their pitiful £90K pa annual salary plus letting them off remedial sentences, even community service - cos the poor loves are too busy for any of that rehabilitation new fangled stuff.

revol68 ""Identity is a dream pathetic in its absurdity. You dream of being yourself when you've nothing better to do""
Posts: 17788 Joined: 23-02-04 Location: Belfast
23 August, 2007 - 01:36

what a fucking joke!

they were boasting of locking people up for benefit fraud the other night on telly and this cunt gets a 2000 quid fine.

wraeth "He's ---> revol68"
Posts: 343 Joined: 18-05-07 Location: East London
23 August, 2007 - 01:39

Quite.

Maybe this branding with a steam iron and foot slashing at home is all the rage in the upper judicial echelons. Wouldn't want to rock the boat. Time honoured principle for keeping the wives in order.

revol68 ""Identity is a dream pathetic in its absurdity. You dream of being yourself when you've nothing better to do""
Posts: 17788 Joined: 23-02-04 Location: Belfast
23 August, 2007 - 01:42

true, maybe she shouldn't have forgotten the safe word??

wraeth "He's ---> revol68"
Posts: 343 Joined: 18-05-07 Location: East London
23 August, 2007 - 01:45

Good point. Probably 'sandwiches'.

revol68 ""Identity is a dream pathetic in its absurdity. You dream of being yourself when you've nothing better to do""
Posts: 17788 Joined: 23-02-04 Location: Belfast
23 August, 2007 - 01:46
wraeth wrote:
Good point. Probably 'sandwiches'.

nah it's always banana's.

actually that's got me thinking, banana and peanut sandwhichs, wish I had them.

my cupboards are bear, nothing to do but have another cup of tea and some bourbons.

I swear I must drink 7 cups of tea a day on average.

wraeth "He's ---> revol68"
Posts: 343 Joined: 18-05-07 Location: East London
23 August, 2007 - 02:01
revol68 wrote:
wraeth wrote:
Good point. Probably 'sandwiches'.

nah it's always banana's.

actually that's got me thinking, banana and peanut sandwhichs, wish I had them.

my cupboards are bear, nothing to do but have another cup of tea and some bourbons.

I swear I must drink 7 cups of tea a day on average.

Nope I still reckon it was 'sandwiches' and she forgot it. Who can blame him eh - picture the scene. He's yelling about his TShirt and giving her a thorough branding with a steam iron ... if she'd only remembered to say 'sandwiches' at that crucial point she might have diverted his attention. Oh wait ...

Bananas and peanut butter. Anything with peanut butter. Wrong un.

Got to be up at 5, better get to bed. Night black bloc

Lone Wolf "An explanation is not the same as an excuse. "
Posts: 4352 Joined: 01-03-06 Location: E. London UK
24 August, 2007 - 02:02

Update!

Talk of the devil t'other day about this "good character" business..

Dr. Stuart Brown, an anaesthetics consultant on approx £100,00, was found guilty of a vicious assault on his wife which - unsurprisingly - followed regular verbal and physical abuse throughout the seven-year marriage. Following a row about buying a new car, he threw her to the floor and punched her at least 24 times as she lay bleeding at his feet. He fled their house in Norwich after she managed to crawl to a phone and dial 999.

His "punishment"? Ordered to pay his wife £500 compensation.. , a supervision order and a requirement to attend a domestic abuse program.

He is still working (seriously if you needed an op. in Norwich would you want this guy to put you under??? ) The hospital refused to comment - how surprising! The GMC say they will hold a hearing at which he could be suspended or struck off but i expect he will be sent on a retraining or awareness course - the idea of "punishment" meted out internally to abusive professionals. Just pathetic!!

Soo the excuse the magistrates gave for not jailing this louse?? You guessed it - he "was of good character" . (What the fuck is the criterion? Good character compared to who - Vlad the Impaler?? ) Presiding magistrate John Warne told him:

"No punishment this court could enforce could come anywhere near the impact you feel this had on you, your profession and your colleagues".

So it is all about his feelings then? twisted And worse than that what he says he feels - the impact it has had on him - they were his actions. He wasn't the victim!

For "good character" read wealthy. twisted

Mebbe Dr. Brown or Mr. Warne might be in need of some nice friendly contact? black bloc

Love

LW XX

Sean
Posts: 10 Joined: 07-07-07 Location: I live in Scotland, in a town called irvine in ayrshire.
24 August, 2007 - 15:51

I'm eating a penut butter and banana sandwhich right now =]. As for this guy- cunt. "We do not endorse vigilante justice; unless it gets results."

Thrashing_chomsky
Posts: 153 Joined: 03-06-07 Location: Leeds
24 August, 2007 - 22:07

Can we have a practice run of the innvevitable Class War, on Colin Read's head? With big fucking hammers and genetically modified Rape-programmed cyber-Baboons?

Flint "masturbatory, adolescent outbursts"
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28 August, 2007 - 13:58

madashell "KSW, LOL"
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29 August, 2007 - 10:30
Thrashing_chomsky wrote:
genetically modified Rape-programmed cyber-Baboons?

grin