Martin stafford trial

On the night in question, however, a quantity of alcohol was purchased before going to the station. When they arrived at the railway cabin, the respondent took C. B's bag from her and switched off her mobile phone, at which point he said to her "tonight you are going to get fuck all money.

You stay until I tell you to go and you are going to have sex with me the way I like it and you are to strip off everything.

He grabbed her and pushed her down on the bed. He picked up a hammer and threatened her with the hammer to smash her face. He removed his clothes and invited her to have oral sex with him. Despite her request, he refused to use a condom. He then had vaginal sex with her from behind, subsequently moving to a front position. He withdrew before ejaculating. He told her that they were going to have intercourse all night and that he would not let her go until he was finished.

After about an hour the respondent forced her again to have oral sex with him, followed by penetrative vaginal sex though he ejaculated on her back. She herself then attempted to use the hammer by way of self-defence. She tried to knock him unconscious so that she could get out of the carriage but he grabbed her and pushed her on the head.

He, again, reiterated that he would not let her go and that she would have to stay until his needs were satisfied at which point he gave her a choice of oral or anal sex. She opted for the oral sex. In fact ordinary vaginal sex followed but she later performed oral sex on him.

She was allowed go to the toilet on one or two occasions which, in effect, was a cardboard box. Eventually, the respondent fell asleep and while he was asleep C. As a final part of the assaults, she was at one point threatened by a scissors. While she was having sex with the respondent, the scissors was put to her throat. It is clear from the evidence and the victim impact report that C. By any standard, the crime was horrific and would attract a substantial sentence.

The question is was the sentence imposed by the learned judge unduly lenient. Having regard to other matters and circumstances which are about to be referred to in this judgment, the court is of opinion that it was not and that there would be no basis for setting aside the sentence. Before giving specific reasons why the court is of the view that the sentence was not unduly lenient, it is thought appropriate to make some general comments on sentencing principles in general.

One of the reasons why the court thought fit to reserve judgment in this case is because shortly before the hearing of the appeal, Charleton J. Drought had delivered a lengthy and learned judgment on sentencing in rape cases. Prosecutor James Curtis QC had told the jury it was entitled to know Stafford's previous convictions for overpowering woman and forcing them to undergo sexual violations. Stafford was jailed for life, with a minimum tariff of 33 years.

Harinderpal Dhami, crown advocate of the West Midlands CPS, said: "The jury saw through his selective amnesia answers and reached the only right and proper conclusion from all of the evidence which had been painstakingly collected by the police over the last seven years. Det Insp Simon Astle, who led the case, said: "This has been a long and complex inquiry and we welcome the verdict of the court today. Issuing a statement through police, Ms Gunshon's family said: "Martin Stafford is a danger to people and should not be allowed out.

Woman 'murdered by pub worker'. And the name Sandra Bland, who was ordered out of her car by a Texas state trooper during a traffic stop after she refused to put out her cigarette. While sitting outside her funeral in Naperville, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, I heard her mother scream justice. Since then, we have feebly tried to count the bodies.

I contributed to "The Uncounted," a now-defunct database at The Guardian. Before the trial concluded, the Arbery family requested that no "violent" protests break out when the verdict arrived. But in the same way that tracking the murders of transgender people in the U. They made this request after members of the New Black Panther Party paraded around a casket with the names of dead Black people around the courthouse days ago.

Their pleas call to mind a quote from Toni Morrison that my friend, poet Saeed Jones, tweeted. She was being asked about the Black rebellion in Los Angeles after the acquittal of the white police recorded beating Rodney King. Nine months? A year?