Another miscarriage of justice. Extracts:
Stephanie Roberts, 20, slashed at her lover Ravi Benitez, 19, when she visited him at Warwick University on November 24 last year.
Mr Benitez suffered slash wounds before a security guard managed to wrestle the seven-inch knife from Roberts’ hands.She was spared jail at Warwick Crown Court after the judge [Sylvia de Bertodano] was told she is ‘an intelligent young woman of integrity and charm’…
The judge added: ‘It was a very, very dangerous way to behave, because if you take out a knife when you are distressed and angry and have had a lot to drink, you can cause very serious injuries indeed. [J4MB: No shit, Sherlock!]
‘Both he and you are very fortunate you did not do so on this occasion.
‘But I have read a great deal about you, and both the prosecution [J4MB emphasis] and the defence accept I must sentence you according to your basis of plea which makes clear you had for some time been the victim of a mentally abusive relationship. [J4MB: The prosecuting lawyer was acting for the defence.]
‘Your circumstances had pushed you to the limit, and the combination of drink and drugs that had been supplied to you by him that night were sufficient to push you over the edge.’ [J4MB: In plain English, “You were not responsible for your actions”]
Once again, we see drugs (including alcohol) being considered a mitigating issue for a woman, while they’re invariably taken as an aggravating issue for men.
Justice for Men & Boys 
The judge added: ‘It was a very, very dangerous way to behave, because
if you take out a knife when you are distressed and angry and have had a
lot to drink, you can cause very serious injuries indeed.’
‘Sorry Daddy.’
Did the judge wave his finger at her, showing his disapproval too?
I mean come on! That is like talking to a fecking child.
She’s an adult who slashed someone with a knife. Blokes get jailed for that shit!
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The Judge acted in a gentlemanly fashion. I can’t think of anything else to explain this.
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The judge’s name was Sylvia, so presumably was a woman.
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That she’s pretty on the outside will have helped enormously, and choosing to dress in soft girly pink indicates a cynical manipulation at work here.
Don’t mock though it worked, they all fell for it.
Result.
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I don’t know who is worse, male judges that fall for the whole teary eyed appeals to chivalry by pretty young things/mothers/emotionally overwhelmed females (delete your damselling female criminal as appropriate) or the equally daft female magistrates who let women go because vagina (sterling example in the next story). No wonder the criminal justice system is full of male criminals and not women, as a copper you can’t get a charge to stick in court even if you bother making an arrest.
I’d also love to cite this case in court in my own defence if I’m ever arrested for slashing my female lover in the face with a seven inch knife, whilst off my face on mind bending chemicals. Indeed, being high seems to be a mitigating circumstance in all cases involving women, much less so than for men, as does the defence that “he was mmmeeeaannnn to me”. Again, still waiting for the courts to recognize these as mitigating features in male on female DV cases (and I’ll be waiting a long time while Alison “guess which gender I self-indentify as” Saunders is heading up the CPS.
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