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Showing posts with label His youngest victim only 12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label His youngest victim only 12. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

James Pollard, Sent to Prison for Drunken Fighting outside Jules Youth Club, Oakham, His youngest victim only 12


James Pollard has been sentenced to seven months detention after pleading guilty to four counts of common 
assault.


Whilst drunk he head-butted three friends and punched another outside Jules youth club, after losing his temper


One of the victims was a 12-year-old boy, who was attending the club with three teenagers who were also assaulted.



James Pollard, 19, of Woodland View, Oakham, admitted to the assaults which took place Outside Jules Youth Club Melton Road, Oakham, on December 21 .

He also pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal damage after smashing a window in High Street, Oakham, on November 16.

Pollard was charged for the offences while subject to a six-month suspended sentence, imposed in August last year, for possessing an offensive weapon and assault by beating.

At Leicester Crown Court on Thursday last week, he was given four months detention in a young offender institution for the assaults,


Sentencing, Judge Simon Hammond said: "You had your chance last August. You're not getting another."