Suzanne Harrington: It is time to stop shielding violent men
So the singer from Kasabian avoided jail after a sustained violent attack on his girlfriend because – checks notes – the judge (another man) deemed the Kasabian bloke’s previous charity work a good enough reason to sentence him to community service instead of anything custodial.
Great. I think I might go out, get off my head on booze or whatever, and violently drag someone smaller than me around by their ankles, bash their head against a hard surface, throttle them, and threaten them with a – what was it again – oh yes, a wooden pallet. I’ll do all of this in front of a small child, who will be terrified enough to call 999. Then I’ll deny it ever happened until someone shows me the CCTV, which I will subsequently refuse to watch because it’s “horrible”. I might cry a bit, preferably in public. Boo hoo.
