Posted: May 04, 2018 2:04 pm
Keep It Real wrote:Thommo wrote:He's gone from his repeated incidents of kicking people's doors in to being up in court for ABH after his neighbour shouted at him and his girlfriend to keep the noise down (an odd choice for a professed pacifist one might think, but then again he posted several times about how she had been encouraging him to violence, which was a pretty serious warning sign a professional may have noticed in time) and he went around and kicked the shit out of him.
One person's door and I didn't kick it in.
You said at the time you did (and then you said you didn't, and later you admitted again you did), and if I've misremembered that the other incidents you had a while back also included a second incident with a door. You certainly did something that landed you up before the bench though, among other incidents.
Keep It Real wrote:I assaulted him because he tore my girlfriend's internal sutures etc, not because he banged on his floor.
You said that what happened was that you were at her house and he shouted at you to keep the noise down. You said that five days earlier your girlfriend had told you that he had pushed her against a railing and her sutures had come out so you were already angry at him. You then had a back and forth with the girlfriend where she encouraged you to go around and beat the shit out of him, which you then did.
That was a premeditated, serious assault, occasioning actual bodily harm, and it would certainly be worse for you in court if the facts that you premeditated the attack and specifically denied feeling any remorse were presented. Hopefully you haven't repeated this anywhere else and certainly won't do so in court as these are specific factors in sentencing.
I sincerely hope that the help you're getting now will continue on past the court case (although I admit you have given the exact opposite impression that you see this as a thing you have to do to manage the court case and make sure you don't get a longer sentence) because you seriously, seriously need the help. Long term. You need to think about the decisions you're making and how they are doing harm to you, how being influenced into violence is a really bad thing, how repeatedly buying alcohol when you're an alcoholic is a really bad thing. A professional can help you with that, placing the blame on other people is just going to enable you to carry on until it really hurts you. That would be extremely sad.