Prison

Mark A said:
I think i would have died due to the wait, thinking about it every day. Its like you have already served a years sentence. Good luck with it, hope its not as bad as its sometimes made out.
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Exactly - bad enough having things hanging over you. Been in court 4 times over this so far and sometimes just want to get it over with but now it's nearly time - just want it to go away but know it won't
 
I would agree with some posts in here that you can't just judge the OP (at first) cause he said he was getting done for GBH. Now the OP has given the reason for the GBH charge then he deserves what he gets. To bottle someone cause they are doing your head in and winding you up is a poor excuse, would it not have been easier to walk away from this person or leave?

In September 2000 I got in to a fight in my local town centre. 2 blokes were slapping a girl about, so I stepped in to try and calm things down, all seemed ok and the situation calmed and then the blokes turned on me, the girl walked away and I was left with the blokes provoking me. This went on for 10 mins, both lads taking off their coats and jumpers getting themselves ready while I just stood there. After about 12 mins of pure abuse off these blokes I went alpha on them and got them both to the floor and then police came and all of us were arrested. The whole situation was caught on CCTV. I was charged with ABH and Affray it went to magistrates court but it was passed on to the Crown Court as they decided they couldn't give me a tough enough sentence. This was totally out of character for me and have never done anything like it before but one bloke slapping a woman about is bad enough let alone 2!!! Anyway it got to crown court and the judge could see how I had got myself in to the situation but clearly said that the way I dealt with it was wrong and that there were other options. In the end I was given a 2 year suspended sentence and a fine and that was it! He said I was very very lucky and got this sentence by the skin of my teeth.

It's wrong to judge people on a tiny little detail once you get the bigger picture you should then make your assumptions.

To the OP - you may get lucky you may not only time will tell.
 
shadow4509 said:
I would agree with some posts in here that you can't just judge the OP (at first) cause he said he was getting done for GBH. Now the OP has given the reason for the GBH charge then he deserves what he gets. To bottle someone cause they are doing your head in and winding you up is a poor excuse, would it not have been easier to walk away from this person or leave?

In September 2000 I got in to a fight in my local town centre. 2 blokes were slapping a girl about, so I stepped in to try and calm things down, all seemed ok and the situation calmed and then the blokes turned on me, the girl walked away and I was left with the blokes provoking me. This went on for 10 mins, both lads taking off their coats and jumpers getting themselves ready while I just stood there. After about 12 mins of pure abuse off these blokes I went alpha on them and got them both to the floor and then police came and all of us were arrested. The whole situation was caught on CCTV. I was charged with ABH and Affray it went to magistrates court but it was passed on to the Crown Court as they decided they couldn't give me a tough enough sentence. This was totally out of character for me and have never done anything like it before but one bloke slapping a woman about is bad enough let alone 2!!! Anyway it got to crown court and the judge could see how I had got myself in to the situation but clearly said that the way I dealt with it was wrong and that there were other options. In the end I was given a 2 year suspended sentence and a fine and that was it! He said I was very very lucky and got this sentence by the skin of my teeth.

It's wrong to judge people on a tiny little detail once you get the bigger picture you should then make your assumptions.

To the OP - you may get lucky you may not only time will tell.
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At leat you have an idea of what can happen. I know what i did was wrong but there's always stuff that leads up to it but nobody wants to look at that. I expect to go down and am trying to get ready for that - just a week to go for me.

Were you expecting to get sent down? It really does wreck your head
 
So you have 7 posts and you thought you would come on this forum and tell us all you're going to jail?

Did you happen to watch Banged up on Channel 5 on Monday night perhaps? (you can download it if you missed it)
 
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