Jersey Unreported Judgments

Bail application

[2024]JRC079

Royal Court

(Samedi)

5 April 2024

The Attorney General

-v-

Gabrielle Lilian Linstead

Ms L. B. Hallam, Crown Advocate.

Advocate J. W. R. Bell for the Defendant.

JUDGMENT

THE DEPUTY BAILIFF:

1.        We order an update to the Pre-Sentence Order and assume that the report from the psychologist is in the course of preparation.

2.        Ms Linstead, when this case came before the Court on 5 January, in a short judgment we recorded that the Indictment you then faced involved a savage and sustained attack on your victim, that you had pleaded guilty at the eleventh hour to a serious offence and that the policy of the courts in those circumstances was to remand a convicted defendant in custody unless there were exceptional circumstances.  The Court was not aware, on that occasion, that whilst on bail last October you committed another offence of violence, another grave and criminal assault on a women with whom you had previously been in a relationship involving striking her twice in the face with a glass causing the glass to smash and causing injury to her.

3.        Accordingly we are no longer able to find exceptional circumstances and you are remanded in custody until your sentence on 10 June before the Superior Number.  We take into account all that has been said by your counsel and the documentation placed in front of us from Silkworth Lodge.

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