Our thanks to William for this. An extract:
Churchman set a starting point of 22 months in jail for the offending, before adding two months for her 18 previous convictions. That included 17 between 1988 and 2011.
He had also taken out a protection order against Susan five years before they were married.
The 18th conviction, which came after his death, was for drunk driving.
Churchman considered mitigating factors such as her guilty plea, admission to police and remorse and reduced her sentence to 17.34 months in jail which he then converted to 11 months home detention.
Justice for Men & Boys 
So ‘yes, I raped her but I’m an alcoholic and and I’m very sorry about my crime’ will get me a light sentence reduced to home detention will it?
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How can pushing someone down stairs, when you have been beating and domestically abusing them, not be murder!!
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See, cases like this one are why I said that Oxford medical student beating the rap was down to gender, not class.
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Sky News tells me that “the era of sexual predation is over”. Great.
But I see the era of paternity fraud, the era of guilt by accusation, of male expendability and women claiming every allowance for the weak as well as every respect for the strong, is set to continue.
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I am so glad that New Zealand is following the United Nations lead on stamping out violence against everyone, using the government ministry for mem.
Oh, no, hang United Nations only has a campaign to prevent violence against women. New Zealand only has a ministry for women and only has active policies on violence against women.
Is it really any surprise that violence done to a man is treated leniently? Is it any suprise that violence done by a woman is excused and mitigated?
New Zealand is no different than the UK in these regards (except New Zealand still has real prisons for women). Until violence to men and children is recognised as equally serious, and until abuse by women is treated as equally serious, we can not stamp out domestic, or even street, violence.
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