A DRUNKEN BULLY WAS SAVED FROM JAIL AFTER HIS FO

A DRUNKEN BULLY WAS SAVED FROM JAIL AFTER HIS FORGIVING
VICTIM TOLD A JUDGE AT SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT: ‘PRISON WON’T DO
HIM ANY GOOD.

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BARMAID MARGARET HAY, 31, WHO WAS DRAGGED OUT OF BED AND BEATEN

BY BOYFRIEND JOSEPH TIMMIN, TOLD THE JUDGE: ‘HE NEEDS HELP.

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TIMMIN LAUNCHED THE VICIOUS ASSAULT ON MISS HAY AFTER SHE LEFT A

FRIEND’S HOUSE AND WENT HOME WITHOUT TELLING HIM, SAID PROSECUTOR MR

PHILIP KATZ.

JAILING TIMMIN FOR NINE MONTHS, SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS, THE

JUDGE MR RORDER E.

J.

CROWTHER SAID: ‘IT WAS A VICIOUS, BRUTAL,

BULLYING, DRUNKEN ATTACK ON THIS WOMAN AND SOMETHING OF WHICH YOU

SHOULD BE HEARTILY ASHAMED.

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HE ADDED: ‘I THINK THE ATTITUDE OF THE VICTIM IS EXTREMELY

IMPORTANT HERE.

SHE DOESN’T WANT YOU TO GO TO PRISON AND HAS BEEN

VERY FORGIVING.

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TIMMIN, 40, UNEMPLOYED AND A MAN OF PREVIOUS GOOD CHARACTER

ADMITTED CAUSING HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND ACTUAL BODILY HARM.

THE COURT HEARD THAT THE COUPLE HAD BEEN DRINKING AT A LOCAL PUB

BEFORE GOING TO A FRIEND’S HOUSE FOR A MEAL ON JULY 12 THIS YEAR.

‘TIMMIN WAS DRUNK AND WANTED TO DANCE AND FOOL AROUND BUT MISS

HAY DIDN’T WANT ANY TROUBLE SO SHE SLIPPED OUT AND WENT HOME WITHOUT

TELLING HIM,’ SAID COUNSEL.

WHEN TIMMIN CAME BACK TO THE HOUSE THEY SHARED IN HARLEYFORD

ROAD, KENNINGTON, HE DRAGGED HIS GIRLFRIEND OUT OF BED BY HER HAIR

AND BEGAN TO PUNCH AND KICK HER.

‘HE SAID HE LOVED HER AND HAD BEEN WORRIED ABOUT HER – WHILE HE

HIT HER IN THE FACE WITH A SHOE HE HAD TAKEN OFF,’ SAID COUNSEL.

THE COURT HEARD THAT MISS HAY RAN HALF NAKED TO A NEIGHBOUR’S

HOUSE, BUT LATER AGREED TO GO BACK HOME WITH TIMMIN.

BUT AS SOON AS THEY GOT INSIDE HE PUNCHED HER IN THE MOUTH

BEFORE SHE ESCAPED AND WENT TO STAY WITH FRIENDS.

DEFENCE COUNSEL MR ROBERT TISSOT SAID TIMMIN ‘WAS UNAWARE OF THE

SERIOUSNESS OF THE BLOWS AND NEVER MEANT TO HURT HER.

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THE JUDGE TOLD TIMMIN: ‘YOU CAN CONSIDER YOURSELF VERY LUCKY.

I THOUGHT AT FIRST THIS WAS A CASE FOR NINE MONTHS IMMEDIATE

IMPRISONMENT, BUT YOUR COUNSEL AND MISS HAY HAVE PERSUADED ME

AGAINST THAT.

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TIMMIN WAS ALSO PLACED UNDER A SUPERVISION ORDER FOR TWO YEARS

AND ORDERED TO PAY #350 TOWARDS THE COST OF THE HEARING.

MISS HAY NO LONGER LIVES WITH TIMMIN, BUT A NEW ADDRESS WAS NO

DISCLOSED

ENDS