Jersey Unreported Judgments

Criminal Hearing - breach of probation and community service orders.

[2016]JRC033A

Royal Court

(Samedi)

5 February 2016

Before     :

W. J. Bailhache, Esq., Bailiff, and Jurats Liston and Ramsden

The Attorney General

-v-

Craig Ian Darling

Sentencing by the Inferior Number of the Royal Court on a breach of a Community Service Order and a Probation Order imposed on 7^th August, 2015, on the following charges:

1 count of:	Common assault (Count 1).
2 counts of:	Grave and criminal assault (Counts 2 and 3).
2 counts of:	Larceny (Counts 4 and 5).
2 counts of:	Malicious damage (Counts 6 and 7).

Age:  19 but 18 at time of offence.

Plea: Guilty.

Conclusions:

Breach of Community Service Order:-revocation of Community Service Order and extension of Probation Order sought.

Sentence and Observations of Court:

Breach of Community Service Order:- Previous Community Service Order revoked and Probation Order extended by a further 6 months with the condition that no return to the Island is made without the consent of the Royal Court or the Chief Probation Officer.

Mark Temple, Solicitor General for the Crown.

Advocate S. E. A. Dale appeared for the Defendant.

JUDGMENT

THE BAILIFF:

1.        We have been invited to revoke the Community Service Order that was imposed in August last year and to extend the Probation Order by a period of 6 months on condition that you are bound not to return to the island without the consent of the Royal Court or the Chief Probation Officer, and I understand from what your counsel has said that you accept that condition. 

2.        The Court makes that order and revokes the Community Service Order and we make it plain that we so because the Southend-on-Sea unpaid work department has indicated that it is not willing to enforce the Order any further, not because we find you to be in breach of it.  Nonetheless the offences which you committed for which you were sentenced previously by this Court were serious offences and you should recognise that you only escaped custody probably because of your age at the time and that you should take advantage of the Probation Service and of the Southend-on-Sea Probation Service help and the Probation Order that is being extended, because if you do not comply with that Probation Order, you are liable to be brought back to this Court again. 

3.        Very well the Community Service Order is revoked and the existing Probation Order is extended by a further 6 months on the condition that you do not return to the Island without the consent of the Court or the Chief Probation Officer. 

Authorities

AG-v-Darling [2015] JRC 164.