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Evan Williams has been found guilty of assault and will be sentenced next month:
Incredible news, CAS. Last week after the first day in court, it seemed something like 50:50 to me. I wasn’t quite sure, whether the 72-year old victim was exaggerating or not. But then, even the prosecutor found:
“You were filled with rage due to the nature of the background you had with lampers,” he said.
“Whether a broken bone or a wound, you wanted to teach those lampers a lesson.””Not really a person you’d like to meet in the dark.
If your driving about with a hockey stick in your car then you’ve found trouble before ….
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Agree, ERL. Whenever I have seen him interviewed, I have often thought he seemed like such a decent fellow. But as has been said, there is a sinner and a saint in all of us.
It sounds like he has had issues with lampers before. I suppose something inside him has flipped this time.
I would have thought he is looking at a custodial sentence but it might be suspended. If so, I don’t know if having a criminal record would have any implications for his training licence.
He’s been done for Grievous Bodily Harm with Intent which is rather more serious than ‘assault’.
There’s three categories for sentencing, the first two of which involve the imposition of life-threatening and/or permanent injuries which, given the reported ‘minor’ injuries inflicted on the victim won’t apply in this case.
So I’d imagine he’ll be sentenced under Category 3 which is All other cases of really serious harm & All other cases of wounding for which custodial sentences of between 2 and 7 years are the guidelines. Instead of imprisonment suspended sentences and community orders can be given to ‘low-risk’ individuals.
He’s expecting some b and b at the kings pleasure then
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Possibly. But it might be that he is no longer considered a fit and proper person to hold a licence, now he has a criminal record.
I think he and the BHA came to a mutual agreement.
The more I know the less I understand.
I suppose it was inevitable the stable was going to have a winner at Cheltenham.
Just imagine Il Etait Temps would have unseated yesterday after the last.
Not really making excuses for him but there’s something about something about someone being on your property that makes even mild mannered people ( like me !) see red. Things like someone parking in your parking space etc does make the blood boil. And how many arguments are caused by garden fences ( the only argument I ever had with my neighbour of 50 years was about a fence that I thought was mine but was hers).
Confirmed on the BBC website:
Thoroughly deserved he attacked an innocent OAP.
The more I know the less I understand.
“Holding the stick with both hands….” tells a lot.
I wonder who takes over the horses. The Rucker might not be very pleased to lose their trainer.Outside of a direct and immediate threat to your family, I would say there is never a reason to take the law into your own hands, that being said, this comment in some way may explain his over the top reaction:
Elias described “a terrifying previous incident” about six weeks beforehand when trespassers had threatened Williams with a shotgun and made threats about burning his property. That led to him “reacting on the spur of the moment to a situation he believed was far more serious than it actually was”.
A pre-sentencing report compiled to assist the judge spoke of Williams suffering “unresolved trauma which impaired his judgement” as a result of the earlier incident. Elias emphasised that the trainer had shown insight and changed his behaviour, calling the police to deal with a subsequent incident rather than intervening himself”
Oddly if the incident itself had happened 13 days later, changes to the law meant that the judge could have suspened the whole sentence, that being said, it would appear that he will most likely be out no later than 18 months into his sentence, with the balance of the three years to be served in the community.
It could end up being an extremely costly lesson not just in the immediate future but also long term in potential damage to his reputation which could affect his ability to bring in new owners to his yard (or even keep his current ones).
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