A golf enthusiast has been banned from playing his favourite sport by a judge. Paul Maskell was banned from playing golf for three months as an additional sting to the punishment for getting involved in a street brawl.
The 21-year-old admitted assault and actual bodily harm when he knocked a man unconscious during an incident, in Chelmsford, on February 22.
The painter and decorator was given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay £2,000 compensation and costs.
Judge Anthony Goldstaub QC also imposed a weekend curfew from 9pm to 2am and an “activity requirement” banning Maskell, of Henry Close, Clacton, from going to any golf courses or golf clubs for the next three months.
3 comments:
A judge can do that? That seems so wrong, golf even appears to have had nothing to do with the crime. So, as a punishment, a judge can ban you from doing your favourite things, even if you're not going to jail? This doesn't fit into my sense of justice, it seems arbitrary and petty. I also doubt that, had the convicted been a devout Christian, any judge would have ordered him to stay out of church for three months.
I'm trying to make sense of the phallic green, erm, thingy on the sign. I guess it's supposed to be a map of the fairway/green? I wonder if the architect had a sense of humour... or was just really thick.
Heh heh, I think it's just an artist's unfortunate interpretation of the hole layout.
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