Claim No. C00BM271
IN THE COUNTY COURT AT BIRMINGHAM 

Priory Courts
33 Bull Street
Birmingham
B4 6DS

Monday, 26th September 2016

Before:

HIS HONOUR JUDGE WORSTER

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Between:

BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL
Claimant
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K ROBINSON
Defendant

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Counsel for the Claimant: MR CALZAVARA

Solicitor for the Defendant: MS ROBINSON

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JUDGMENT
JUDGMENT

HIS HONOUR JUDGE WORSTER:

1.	Mr Robinson, would you stand up?  When you were here on 17th June, I explained to you the seriousness of these sorts of orders and that I was giving you a chance on that occasion because of the explanation you gave me about the circumstances in which you met Jacob Brown, but that if you breached the lenient sentence that I passed on you on that occasion then you would have to serve it.  
2.	There were two breaches on this occasion.  I do give you considerable credit for owning up to them today.  You could have owned up to them last time but you have owned up to them today.  I am not blind to the fact that you have done so, as your solicitor says, in the full knowledge of what that means.  These injunctions are very important.  I appreciate you deny the basis of it, but a court order has to be enforced because there is a danger to you and to others of you being in these areas.  I take the point that you were not committing any offences as such.  That is not an aggravating feature.  
3.	It is the breach of the order that I have to sentence you for.  You are 23.  I take account of the fact that you have not been in prison before and I will reduce the sentence to recognise that fact, but I have to pass an immediate sentence upon you today.  It is as short as I can possibly make it because it is the fact of a sentence rather than the length that I think will have its effect, if it has any effect at all.  
4.	The sentence for the two breaches would have been three months but for your plea.  I am reducing that to two months to take account of your plea.  That is the fullest possible credit I can give you for it.  I am adding to that the 14 days that I passed on you in June but I am deducting two days, which gives you credit for the nights you spent in custody following your arrest.  So, that is a total of 68 days, of which you will serve half, so that will be just over a month inside which seems to me in the circumstances to be the shortest possible sentence I can pass upon you for these breaches.  You can sit down.  
5.	There will be a transcript at public expense of my sentencing remarks.  I activate the suspended sentence as I have indicated, so that comes to an end and the usual order for costs.
THE	JUDGE:  You are legally aided, Ms Robinson?

MS 	ROBINSON:  Pardon me? 

THE	JUDGE:  You are legally aided? 

MS	ROBINSON:  I am. 

THE	JUDGE:  So, the usual order for costs for Legal Aid.  Mr Robinson, if you will wait, please, because a number of documents have been completed which go with you to the prison and then the bailiffs will take you there.  There is a document that I have to sign, so, as I say, if you will wait with the bailiffs, please.

[Judgment ends]