Our thanks to Graham for this. An extract:

“Hook’s learning difficulties, which included being “emotionally inadequate and vulnerable”, did temper her offending, the judge said.

Hedworth said he could lock Hook up but that would leave her “ill-equipped” to cope with her issues in the future.

She will have to work with probation service as part of her suspended sentence to aid rehabilitation, the court heard.”

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