Judge told boy who stabbed a girl 10 times that prison was the 'last place' for a 'bright lad'
Judge Ian Lawrie, who handed the 14-year-old attacker a 12-month referral order after ruling prison was the "last place" he should be, despite the boy stabbing his victim at least 10 times.CCTV footage from inside the Cirencester shop where the boy stalked and repeatedly stabbed the girl after she rejected him, also knifing a shopkeeper who tried to intervene.
A judge at Gloucester Crown Court spared a 14-year-old boy jail for stabbing a girl 10 times with a six-inch kitchen knife in Cirencester, telling him prison was the "last place" for a "bright lad." The boy had stalked his victim after she rejected him, waited outside a shop, and attacked her in a premeditated assault that also injured a shopkeeper who tried to intervene. The girl's mother called the sentence "absolutely disgraceful" and said her daughter now has the "prison sentence" — too scared to go anywhere alone.
The judge, Ian Lawrie, imposed only a 12-month referral order and a three-year restraining order, telling the boy to "keep out of mischief."
'Does somebody actually have to die to get justice?' the victim's mother demanded, calling it a 'slap on the wrist.'
Parents whose daughters were killed by ex-partners called the sentence "appalling" and "misogynistic."
