Man who burnt wife with iron escapes with pathetic fine

[AB Asks]

A man who beat his wife, slashed her foot with a knife and pressed a hot iron into her back twice has escaped with only a fine. He not escaped jail but he also didn't have to carry out any community work - as he is too busy with his job. The management consultant abused his wife for not making his sandwiches and not ironing his shirt. What do you think? Is this a strong enough deterrent for wife beaters? Women are encouraged to report violent partners but do punishments like this make it seem pointless as this man clearly has problems?

[johnlambert]

Welcome aboard IggyB
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[cheries]

As you can see from the picture of this charming man in Gromit's link, he STILL hasn't managed to get his shirt properly ironed, poor lamb.

[tigerlily11]

Well I have known a bloke who was treated in roughly the same way by his wife. He didn't have the option of going to the police because lets face it they probably would have laughed at him. Like some others here he wouldn't dream of hitting his wife so he stuck it out til she run off with another bloke.
Do you think she would have got nearly the same sentence (as pethetic as it was) if it had been the other way round?
It does happen to blokes to.