Slap on Wrist For Al-majed's Killer
The killer could be out of jail in a year!
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The Hastings Observer newspaper quoted Judge Anthony Scott-Gall as saying that the 368 days Austin had already spent in custody would count toward the spell in jail.
“Under guidelines where convicts usually serve just half their term in prison, the killer could be out in just over a year,” the Observer noted.
According to sources, the sentence seemed to be lenient, considering the fact that a “guest student” had lost his life in a “gang attack” in the host country and the teenager’s death had traumatised his family.
Paul Rockett, of Ham Lane, Burwash, was also jailed yesterday afternoon after being found guilty of racially-aggravated common assault on Peter Henworth, a South African friend of Majed.
“He was given four months in prison and told he would likely serve just two,” the Observer said on its online edition.
A third defendant, Alexander Quinn, 19, of Mountbatten Close in Hastings, was ordered to spend the next two years in a young offenders institute after being found guilty of wounding another of the Qatari teenager’s friends
This was expected.