The two burglars aged 17 from Norwich Public School were yesterday quite correctly not sent to prison. After all, their six burglaries had only caused, major distress and heartache, £12,500 of stolen goods and just £6,000 worth of damage. McEvoy and Sorensen-Pound received a swingeing Community Punishment Order and a suspended sentence.The sixth householder trapped them in a locked doorway and shouted at them to sit down which they did until police arrived.
For justice to have been properly served, the Police should have arrested the victim for kidnapping and charged him with actual bodily harm for the 'distress' caused by raising his voice. A custodial sentence would have been inevitable.
I expect that lawyers are being briefed as we speak, to allow these two unfortunates, from dreadful backgrounds to sue the nasty man who almost ruined their educational prospects by wickedly getting them expelled from school.
