Friday 9 January 2009

Girl attacked with hedge trimmer

These types of vicious attacks on women are nowadays all too common occurrence in Pendle, however, what stands out in this particular case is given the Police’s usual appeasement when it comes to the bearers of enrichment how the Police bothered to get it before the courts in the first place never mind a conviction, however the most shocking aspect about this case is the sentence handed out to Rizwan Asghar. This slimeball was already on the sex offender’s list, which he appears to have breached with impunity and has a string of previous convictions to his CV. “Nearly two years” that was the pathetic sentence handed out to someone that could easily have killed hadn’t it not been for the intervention of a passer-by. A BNP government would make this dirt bag serve ten years hard labour.
An attacker that subjected a 17-year-old girl in a sustained a terror attack with an electric hedge trimmer is behind bars for nearly two years.
Burnley Crown Court heard how Rizwan Asghar hit the victim with the machine after a row, turned it on and threatened to cut her leg off. He had dragged her along the ground by her ponytail and punched and kicked her after driving with her and others to a remote spot outside Burnley.A walker who saw what happened bravely ran towards the defendant, shouting at him to stop, but he didn't and carried on the savage beating and shook his fist at her. The onlooker feared the victim would be killed and later told police the assault was "brutal, cold blooded and determined."



Asghar, a sex offender who had flouted the register, was responsible for a "catalogue of offences" committed over 18 months and had failed to comply with court orders, the hearing was told.The defendant (25), of Halifax Road, Brierfield, admitted assault causing actual bodily harm, failing to comply with the Sex Offenders' Register, breaching a suspended sentence imposed for attacking a hospital security guard and driving with excess alcohol, driving without due care and attention, driving without a licence and with no insurance and obstructing a police officer. He was sent to jail for 94 weeks and banned from driving for three years.

Sentencing, Judge Heather Lloyd slammed the defendant as an "arrogant and violent bully" and said he had thought nobody would have the courage to make a complaint or give a statement about the assault.

She added the defendant had shown no remorse or victim empathy and continued: "This was a vicious attack upon a young female, Whatever the argument was about it did not justify this behaviour towards her." He picked up a hedge trimmer from the vehicle, got out, swung it around, put it in the boot and got back in the vehicle.

The argument continued and Asghar threatened to cut the girl's leg off. He then grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the car, cutting her leg.As the victim lay on the floor, the defendant got the hedge trimmer, turned it on and put it against her leg, gashing it. She managed to get back in the vehicle, her friend locked the door, but the defendant unlocked it and swung the trimmer at her.
Mr Parker said the girl got out for her safety and Asghar then threw her to the ground, kicked her in the head and dragged her across the floor.
A man and a lady who did not know the party intervened and dragged the defendant off her. Other members of the public joined in to help her. The prosecutor said the victim suffered a cut wrist, swelling and bruising.Gemma Holden, the woman who went to the teenager's aid, told police she thought the defendant was going to kill her. She said he was repeatedly punching and kicking her as she lay defenceless on the ground and the girl seemed "totally shell-shocked" and quite limp. Aaghar had been tossing her around like a rag doll.Mr Parker said the witness was shocked and appalled by what she had seen and told officers the attack was brutal.Asghar was arrested and interviewed and none of the others in the car would make a statement. He did not make admissions. Some time later the witness and the victim picked him out on an identity parade.

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