http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10426581.Violent_teen_is_locked_up/?ref=mr
I don't care what any of the people who defend our legal system say, it's pathetic and disgusting, and I hope one day true justice is served on this individual - but I doubt our legal system can ever provide that.
It makes my blood boil, it really does. How can anyone defend this absolute scumbag and how can the system let all his victims down?
Update: since I wrote this, he has continued the cycle of attacking people; the sentences he is given out are very short and do not properly protect society and ensure that he has free roam to carry out further attacks in future; see https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15070236.callum-tooley-jailed-for-street-attack-in-york/
Our legal system/framework/laws (whatever) is/are absolutely pathetic. As far as I am concerned he attempted to murder a 15 year old boy, who was not expected to live and did very well to pull through (many people were fearing the worst) and our ludicrous legal system only gives him a 4 month detention order and was - shockingly - given the right to be anonymous! So, of course, he attacks someone else in a very violent way, and only gets another 20 months detention order!Callum Thomas Tooley named after judge lifts reporting restriction
A TEENAGER who damaged a man’s kidney with a knife and started an attack that put a younger boy in a coma for three weeks has been locked up.
York’s top judge told Callum Thomas Tooley to change his violent ways or face years in jail.
The stabbing in which Tooley injured Tyrone Savory in Clifton on February 27 was the latest in a series of violent outbursts.
The 17-year-old has been before the crown court for three separate crimes as well as the youth courts.
Eighteen months ago, aged 16, he started the attack on Knavesmire that left a 15-year-old in a medically induced coma for some days.
Under-18s cannot usually be named in court proceedings but The Press is able to name Tooley today after a judge lifted reporting restrictions at the newspaper’s request, on the grounds the public needed to know who he is.
The Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst, said Mr Savory was “extremely lucky” he had not been more seriously injured.
The judge gave him a 20-month detention and training order. Because of his age, the maximum sentence for Tooley’s latest crimes was two years minus a discount for pleading guilty.
He was given a four-month detention and training order for the Knavesmire attack.
Mr Savory suffered two stab wounds, one of which pierced his kidney. He was discharged from York Hospital after two days and has not returned for follow-up appointments.
• Damien Dickinson, 20, of Lindsey Avenue, Acomb, received a 12-month sentence after admitting causing grievous bodily harm by breaking the 15-year-old boy’s skull in the attack on Knavesmire.
I don't care what any of the people who defend our legal system say, it's pathetic and disgusting, and I hope one day true justice is served on this individual - but I doubt our legal system can ever provide that.
It makes my blood boil, it really does. How can anyone defend this absolute scumbag and how can the system let all his victims down?
Update: since I wrote this, he has continued the cycle of attacking people; the sentences he is given out are very short and do not properly protect society and ensure that he has free roam to carry out further attacks in future; see https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15070236.callum-tooley-jailed-for-street-attack-in-york/
Sadly, there will be many more victims to come4th February 2017
A THUG has been jailed for two years and seven months for a vicious attack on a brother and sister in York city centre.
Callum Tooley, 21, and his girlfriend Mollie Kilby, 20, punched and kicked Christian Pratt as he lay on the ground...
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