9 Months Imprisonment Harsh?

hc4361 | 17:02 Wed 22nd Oct 2014 | News

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This young student did a very daft thing whilst drunk, hitting a sleeping woman across the face with his flaccid penis. She knew nothing about it until workmates of his friend reported it to the police after seeing a video of it on the friend's phone.
The victim is more upset by the thought that the video is still out there and could be seen by many. This man did not video it, his friend did. This man did not share it, his friend did.

He admitted the offence straight away, has apologised and took steps to make amends.

In light of recent sentencing of celebrity gropers, do you think the sentence was right?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2803524/Student-jailed-slapping-sleeping-woman-face-penis-friend-filmed-phone.html

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Toratoratora, if it had not been recorded it would never have got to court as she knew nothing about it until the police told her.

ToraToraTora

......err yes! that's the whole point.

ToraToraTora

tell you what nailit, the train would be packed the next day if that happenned.

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ToraTT, you've confused me. You said:

" If it had been done and unrecorded he'd have got a minor assualt charge"

But he wouldn't have because nobody would have known about it to report it to the police.

ToraToraTora

ok lets split hairs, what if one of the other passengers reported it? or woke her up and told her and she reported it then that would have been relatively minor. The point is the crime is not the actual act alone but the whole sorry episode ending up on media forever.