A TEENAGE SHOW OFF, WHO BULLIED, HUMILIATED AND IN
A TEENAGE SHOW OFF, WHO BULLIED, HUMILIATED AND INDECENTLY
ASSAULTED HIS GIRLFRIEND IN PUBLIC, WAS ALLOWED TO WALK FREE FROM THE
OLD BAILEY ON FRIDAY.
STEVEN RANDALL, NOW 18, MADE HIS THEN 14 YEAR OLD
GIRLFRIEND’S LIFE A MISERY SO HE COULD LOOK BIG IN FRONT OF HIS
MATES.
SHE IS NOW 16.
‘HE ABUSED AND HUMILATED THE ATTRACTIVE YOUNG GIRL TO SHOW
OFF TO HIS FRIENDS,’ SAID MR.
NIGEL SWEENEY, PROSECUTING.
THE COURT HEARD THAT THE COUPLE WERE CHILDHOOD FRIENDS AND
BEGAN GOING OUT TOGETHER WHEN HE WAS 16 AND THE GIRL WAS FOURTEEN.
‘THE DEFENDANT SAW IT AS A PHYSICAL RELATIONSHIP BUT HER
UNDERSTANDING ABOUT SEX WAS LIMITED,’ SAID MR.
SWEENEY.
RANDALL, FORMERLY OF NORMAN ROAD, LEYTONSTONE, BUT NOW OF
BOYCOTT AVENUE, OLD BROOK, MILTON KEYNES, TWICE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE
GIRL AND MADE LOVE TO HER EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS UNDER AGE.
HE THEN
BEGAN CALLING HER A ‘SLAG’ IN FRONT OF HIS FRIENDS.
‘HE ALSO WROTE INDECENT GRAFFITTI ABOUT HER AND PINCHED HER
BOTTOM AND BREASTS IN PUBLIC, HE DID IT TO BOOST HIS SELF ESTEEM,’
SAID COUNSEL.
THE GIRL’S WORRIED FATHER APPROACHED RANDALL’S PARENTS
AFTER HE VICIOUSLY KICKED HER ON THE BOTTOM BUT THEY WERE
UNINTERESTED.
‘HER PARENTS NOTICED A GREAT CHANGE IN THEIR DAUGHTER.
SHE
BECAME EXTREMELY QUIET AND WENT OUT RARELY, IF AT ALL,’ SAID MR.
SWEENEY.
THE COUPLE STOPPED SEEING EACH OTHER BUT THINGS CAME TO
A HEAD WHEN SHE BUMPED INTO RANDALL AND HIS FRIENDS ON MARCH 13 LAST
YEAR.
RANDALL CORNERED THE FRIGHTENED GIRL IN LEYTONSTONE IN FRONT
OF HIS LAUGHING, JEERING PALS.
HE THEN PUSHED HER INTO A DOORWAY,
RIPPED HER TROUSERS AND KNICKERS OFF AND INDECENTLY ASSAULTED HER.
‘SHE WAS EXTREMELY EMBARRASED,’ SAID COUNSEL.
‘ALL THE BOYS
WERE WATCHING AND LAUGHING.
‘
MR.
JUSTICE MCCULLOUGH ORDERED THAT RANDALL SHOULD DO 160
HOURS COMMUNITY SERVICE.
HE ALSO ORDERED THAT THE GIRL, WHO LIVES IN
LEYTONSTONE, SHOULD NOT BE NAMED.
HE TOLD RANDALL: ‘I HOPE YOU ARE THOROUGHLY ASHAMED OF
YOURSELF.
YOU MADE A FOOL OF HER AND WERE EXTREMELY NASTY TO BOOST
YOURSELF UP.
ONE THE FACTORS THAT HAS PERSUADED ME TO TAKE A LENIENT
COURSE IS THE FAVOURABLE REPORT FROM THE PROBATION OFFICER.
‘
RANDALL PLEADED GUILTY TO THREE CHARGES OF INDECENT ASSAULT
AND ASSAULT OCCASIONING ACTUAL BODILY HARM.
ENDS.
