Posted by Laughing Boy
on October 29, 2009, 5:44 pm, in reply to "Re: Or, alternatively"
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: This might have something to do with the
: sentence .....
:
: Marlon King's convictions today for sexual
: assault and actual bodily harm are simply
: the latest from a long list of court
: appearances stretching back 12 years.
: London's Southwark Crown Court heard that
: since the age of 17 the Jamaica
: international has found himself in the dock
: on no less than seven previous occasions
: involving 13 offences.
: They feature dishonesty, drink driving and
: other motoring offences, and violence
: against women.
: Only one, receiving a stolen £30,000 BMW,
: resulted in prison - 18 months reduced to
: nine on appeal. Apart from a couple of
: community penalties, the other punishments
: were fines.
: Had the Crown made a "bad
: character" application on time the jury
: would have been told about his criminal
: career.
: But their bid to introduce his background
: was made just days before his trial and
: rejected by Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith.
: His first brush with the law was in
: December 1997 at Camberwell Youth Court when
: he was convicted of wounding another
: footballer.
: At the time he was playing for a local
: Dulwich side. His victim was part of a St
: Thomas's Hospital team.
: Magistrates heard how he first grabbed his
: opponent round the neck and, as the referee
: booked him, returned to the attack with a
: head-butt and a punch in the face,
: fracturing his cheekbone.
: He was given an 80-hour community order
: and ordered to pay £250 compensation.
: Two years later, at Tower Bridge
: Magistrates' Court, he was fined a total of
: £240 for two counts of theft and two of
: fraudulently using a tax disc.
: In 2002 he was before Camberwell Green
: Magistrates for driving with excess alcohol
: and while uninsured. He was fined £650,
: ordered to pay £40 costs and disqualified
: from driving for nine months.
: A week later at Greenwich Magistrates'
: Court he received a six-month community
: rehabilitation order and was ordered to pay
: £100 compensation for criminal damage and
: attempting to obtain property by deception.
: Still in 2002, at Inner London Crown
: Court, he was jailed for receiving the BMW
: Cabriolet.
: A year after that he was at Bow Street
: Magistrates' Court for two counts of common
: assault.
: The court heard how a black cab driver had
: called police about a
: "disturbance" in Berwick Street,
: Soho.
: When officers arrived they saw King
: chasing two women along the road with a belt
: and buckle wrapped round his right fist.
: One of them explained he had attacked them
: for "no apparent reason", punching
: her in the face and causing cuts and
: swelling.
: He was fined £1,000, and ordered to pay
: £500 compensation as well as £100 costs.
: Sometime before the hearing, however, his
: solicitor rang police to say the player
: could not keep an appointment at the station
: because he was "currently receiving
: drugs rehabilitation at a residential centre
: in Wolverhampton".
: But yesterday, during his evidence on
: oath, he was asked by his barrister Trevor
: Burke, QC: "Is there any question of
: you taking drugs ever?
: "Never been near drugs," he
: replied.
: His last court appearance was in 2005,
: again at Bow Street, when he was convicted
: of threatening behaviour.
: This involved him approaching a woman near
: Leicester Square, and again for "no
: apparent reason" spat at her.
: He was fined £300, and ordered to pay
: £500 compensation and £55 costs.
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: If he was white, working class and a
: footballer who has captained England on a
: number of occasions, he could have looked
: forward to his having had the case
: dismissed.
:
: Which I suppose illustrates that one should
: not attempt to apply strict criteria in
: these matters.
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