"Extraordinary" Oxford student avoids jail for KNIFE attack as it would affect her career prospects

[Markhor]

"Extraordinary" Oxford student avoids jail for KNIFE attack as it would affect her career prospects

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-39947017

You have GOT to be kidding me. If ever there was a case that highlights the GROSS double standards of our justice system - this is it. If you are white, rich and have the right accent - you are held to a different standard from everyone else.

An "extraordinary" Oxford University student who stabbed her ex-boyfriend in the leg may avoid jail as it would affect her career prospects, a judge has said. Lavinia Woodward, 24, attacked the man at Christ Church college, while she was under the influence of drink and drugs.

She admitted inflicting grievous body harm, the Oxford Mail reported. At Oxford Crown Court, Judge Ian Pringle QC said he believed the attack was "a complete one-off".

"To prevent this extraordinary, able young lady from following her long-held desire to enter the profession she wishes to, would be a sentence which would be too severe," he said.

"What you did will never, I know, leave you, but it was pretty awful, and normally it would attract a custodial sentence."

Medical student Woodward met the Cambridge University student on dating app Tinder, the court heard. During the attack at the college, she thumped him, lunged at him with a bread knife, and stabbed him in the leg.

She also threw a laptop, glass, and jam jar at him before stabbing herself, the court heard. Judge Pringle was told Woodward had become addicted to drugs and had previously been in an abusive relationship with a previous boyfriend.

He said he would take an "exceptional" course of action and defer sentencing until September. Defence barrister James Sturman QC had argued it would be "almost impossible" for Woodward to become a surgeon once she had disclosed her conviction to employers.

The judge ordered Woodward to remain drug-free, and told her she would be sentenced on 25 September. Francis FitzGibbon, the chair of the Criminal Bar Association, told the BBC's Today programme the case was "unusual".

"The judge must take into account determination or demonstration of steps to address addiction, so it sounds as though he's giving her a chance and I think the judge would do that for anyone wherever they came from in the right circumstances.

"I don't know if her future prospects are the critical factor in this.

"Maybe if she does really badly [on her drug rehabilitation] he'll think again."

White privilege. Class privilege. Wealth privilege.

This cow should be kicked out of Oxford University and given a proper punishment for such a savage attack. If this was a black man from a council estate in Dundee he would be sent to prison before you could blink.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

I think being a woman, and quite a pretty one at that, was probably as big a factor as being white or privileged background. The judge was probably dazzled by her glamour the hopeless old goat.

 

[ahmedwaqas92]

Excuse my arrogance for asking this kind of a question but isn't UK one of the most impartially unbiased regions in the world when it comes to judiciary and the implementation of law ??

I am very surprised to read something like this coming out of UK tbh....

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-39947017

You have GOT to be kidding me. If ever there was a case that highlights the GROSS double standards of our justice system - this is it. If you are white, rich and have the right accent - you are held to a different standard from everyone else.


White privilege. Class privilege. Wealth privilege.

This cow should be kicked out of Oxford University and given a proper punishment for such a savage attack. If this was a black man from a council estate in Dundee he would be sent to prison before you could blink.

Can She be punished after she becomes a Surgeon ie completes her Specialisation ?

If she gets punished than, will her medical practice license be cancelled forever or will be suspended for sometime ?

 

[ahsan17]

I think being a woman, and quite a pretty one at that, was probably as big a factor as being white or privileged background. The judge was probably dazzled by her glamour the hopeless old goat.

This is probably it. Women in general get significantly less jail time than men for committing similar crimes in western nations. Her gender was likely the biggest contributing factor than her race, although her race no doubt played a part in it.

 

[TalentSpotterPk]

Excuse my arrogance for asking this kind of a question but isn't UK one of the most impartially unbiased regions in the world when it comes to judiciary and the implementation of law ??

I am very surprised to read something like this coming out of UK tbh....

The target always is 100 % but 100 % merit or justice is not attainable. After all we all are humans.


If we look at overall picture than sorry to say UK's judicial system still is million times better than ours.


Even the voices raised against this issue will not go unheard. Hopefully.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Ridiculous.

This is supposed to be justice?

 

[Markhor]

One part that's been missed - she isn't even in the country ! She's in Milan, Italy with her mother !