Paramedic Paul Judd has undergone three operations and still can’t work after two women violently attacked him in response to being asked to stand back as he worked.
Originally sentenced to eight and four months, both women appealed their sentences and we’re let off with slapped wrists after a judge applied mitigating factors to their cases (“appalling” childhoods, problems with substances and poor mental health). A teenage boy who was also charged with 8 months in a youth detention centre for the incident made no appeal.
Article here.
In the U.K. where women receive significantly more lenient sentences than men, mitigating factors are far more likely to be taken into account.
