SWINDON MAN SENTENCED FOR ASSAULT AND ABUSE INCLUDING EGG PELTING AND WATER SPRAYING
A BOOZED-up abuser sprayed his partner with freezing water after locking her out of the family home.Swindon magistrates heard that Graham Hackett hit his partner with a hairbrush, leaving her bruised.And the next day, April 21, the 29-year-old continued his assault on the woman.
He woke up in a bad mood after bingeing on cider, screaming obscenities at his partner and asking for his dinner.He locked the woman and another female relative out in the garden and began pelting them with gravel and eggs, before using a hosepipe to spray freezing cold water at them.Hackett, of White Edge Moor, Liden, admitted three counts of assault by beating.
Defending, Mark Glendenning said his client disagreed with parts of the account put forward by prosecutors, but “accepts he is responsible, accepts he is guilty and takes punishment today”.Sentencing Hackett to four months imprisonment suspended for two years, chairman of the bench Rachel Gowshall said: “We’ve listened to whether there’s anything that makes this less serious.
There’s not.” He must complete 200 hours’ unpaid work, 30 rehabilitation days and pay £200 in costs and victim surcharge.
A six-month prohibition order bans him from going back to the family home.
This is a probabilistic continent or country-group signal from public name datasets. It is not proof of nationality, ethnicity or personal background.
Likely region signal
UK
Country
from United Kingdom
- based on first and surname
56.6%
confidence
First-name region
UK
United Kingdom
72.0%
Surname region
UK
United Kingdom
41.1%
Court Outcome
Conviction and Sentencing Details
Sentenced
Detected legal outcome
ve listened to whether there's anything that makes this less serious. There's not." He must complete 200 hours' unpaid work, 30 rehabilitation days and pay 200 in costs and victim surcharge. A six-month prohibition order bans him from going
Suspended sentence
two years
Defending, Mark Glendenning said his client disagreed with parts of the account put forward by prosecutors, but "accepts he is responsible, accepts he is guilty and takes punishment today".Sentencing Hackett to four months imprisonment suspended for two years, chairman of the bench Rachel Gowshall said: "We've listened to whether there's anything that makes this less serious
Community order
200 hours
There's not." He must complete 200 hours' unpaid work, 30 rehabilitation days and pay 200 in costs and victim surcharge
Fine or payment
200 hours
There's not." He must complete 200 hours' unpaid work, 30 rehabilitation days and pay 200 in costs and victim surcharge
Court order
A six-month prohibition order bans him from going back to the family home
