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[2006]JRC191

ROYAL COURT

(Samedi Division)

15^th December 2006

Before :

Sir Philip Bailhache, Kt., Bailiff, and Jurats Le Brocq and Liddiard.

The Attorney General

-v-

G (a minor)

Sentencing by the Inferior Number of the Royal Court, on guilty pleas to:

1 count of:	Obstructing a Police Officer (Count 1).
1 count of:	Resisting arrest (Count 2).

Age: 16.

Plea: Guilty

Details of Offence:

G is a 16 year old who was bound over by the Royal Court on 6^th January, 2006 for a single offence of larceny of an iPod. She breached this Binding Over Order in August 2006 by obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest; tried to intervene when officers were arresting a friend of hers; refused to leave when told to do so, was arrested and then kicked the arresting officer.

Details of Mitigation:

Youth, limited record - submitted that custody was wrong in principle.

Previous Convictions:

Larceny; malicious damage (2006).

Conclusions:

4 weeks' youth detention.

Sentence and Observations of Court:

12 months' probation.

M. T. Jowitt, Esq., Crown Advocate.

Advocate S. E. Fitz for the Defendant.

JUDGMENT

THE BAILIFF:

1. Prison is not a nice place to be, particularly at your age, and we do not want to send you there. On the other hand we are not going to put up with the kind of behaviour which you showed towards those police officers on an occasion when you had been drinking too much and you should not have been drinking at all.

2. We are going to place you on probation for a period of 1 year and it is a condition of the probation order that you be of good behaviour during that time, that you live and work as directed by your Probation Officer and that you engage in all the programmes which the Probation Officer will lay out for you.

3. We are doing this because we take at face value what you have said to us in your letter, that you are really sorry for your unacceptable behaviour. We do not wish to see you again, but we want to make it absolutely clear to you that you have to comply very carefully with everything that the Probation Officer tells you to do, you have to turn up when you are told to turn up and not behave in the stroppy manner in which you behaved in front of the Probation Officer on the last occasion.

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