This is Callum Peacock. He battered his girlfriend with a golf club, threw bleach and paint at her, and burned a memorial shirt of her deceased grandmother but has avoided an immediate prison sentence.
The 19-year-old defendant, from St Helens, subjected his partner to a cruel three-hour ordeal inside their home.
Police officers arrived at the flat to find the victim covered in white paint and curled up in a ball on the bathroom floor.
She was audibly sobbing and shrieking through a hole in the door, which was still smouldering and smoking.
During the assault, the teenager hit her with a broom handle and a golf club before putting her in a chokehold from behind.
When she tried to hide in the bathroom, he smashed the door with the golf club and used an aerosol and a lighter to set fire to it.
He then threw dumbbells and a bottle of bleach at her, causing the liquid to splash onto her body.
In what was described in court as an extremely selfish act, he took hold of a memorial t-shirt featuring a photograph of her deceased grandmother.
He set fire to the garment right in front of her while telling her that her nan would rot in hell.
The attack came just two days after another incident where he struck his girlfriend with a hammer following an argument.
Following his arrest, he openly threatened his victim in front of police officers, stating that he was going to smash her face in when he got out.
But he has now walked free from court after a judge handed him an 18-month imprisonment suspended for 18 months.
The court heard he had already spent nearly five months in custody on remand, which the judge noted was the equivalent of a nine-month sentence for a teenager with no previous convictions.
He was also given a five-year restraining order and a rehabilitation activity requirement of up to 20 days.
Another kick in the teeth, metaphorically speaking to the brave young woman who endured his cowardly attacks.
The justice in this country cares more about the accused than the victims.
The moving patriotism of the Italian firefighters
Every year on June 2nd for Italy’s Republic Day
They rappel down from the highest point of the Colosseum to unfurl a giant Italian tricolour 🇮🇹
Legendary 🔥
Shocking one-punch manslaughter:
Pub regular Nathan Gothard, 37, has been jailed for ten years after killing 66-year-old grandfather David Darke with a single devastating punch outside The Crown Inn in Appleby Magna, Leicestershire.
Gothard had been drinking since 4pm and made creepy, persistent advances toward women in Darke’s Christmas night-out group. When asked to leave, he started a fight with another man, lost badly, and was knocked to the ground.
As kind-hearted engineer David Darke tried to help him back to his feet, Gothard suddenly punched him full-force in the face. Darke fell backwards, hit his head on the ground with a “sickening thud”, suffered a fractured skull and fatal brain bleed. He died six days later.
CCTV showed Gothard “bouncing on his toes” and celebrating immediately after the punch.
Judge William Harbage KC told him: “This was a tragic, senseless and unnecessary act of fatal violence.” Gothard denied murder and manslaughter but was convicted by a jury.
What a fucking loser
🚨NEW: Three teenage boys who filmed themselves raping two teenage girls in separate attacks in Fordingbridge have all been spared jail by judge Nicholas Rowland. They then sent the video around to multiple people.
Judge Nicholas said the boys were "very young, had low intelligence and had a limited understanding of consent."
One of the victims told the court "All I want to do is die, I no longer have fear for when that comes."
She described how she felt “numb” and was shaking while the boys were “laughing and recording what happened” over the 90-minute ordeal.
Videos of the incident were later sent around and other people made jokes about the girl and she received messages calling her a "s**g."
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This is sickeningly unbelievable, what sort of message does this send out ?.........BBC News - Boys' sentences for 11 counts of rape 'too lenient'
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Hello @AltonTowers. I lost my AirPods at your resort on 5th May and filled out the lost property form (with full details). I was the very last guest out of the hotel before it closed after the May Day bank holiday weekend, on 5th May. Ergo, a customer couldn’t have picked them up.
They’ve been pinging in Splash Landings Hotel (in the Flambo’s Jambo restaurant, which is where I know I accidentally left them on a table before leaving after taking a Teams call before my drive back to London) ever since, until yesterday…
It looks like one of your staff members have taken them home as they’re now at a nearby address in Stoke-on-Trent - I’m going to guess that’s not your usual lost property procedure…
Can you let me know who in Alton Towers or Merlin I should contact regarding CCTV requests as I’d like to report this as a theft offence to Staffordshire Police?
Many thanks.
P.S. I contacted you about this privately via Facebook Messenger on 6th May, but you never bothered replying. It’s now 11th May FYI. Really good to know you value customer service - particularly for Merlin Annual Passholders.
This is a shocker! Dwr Cymru claim this sewage discharge into the river, here in Llanrwst near Gwydir, was 'storm overflow' except there was no 'storm' on the 1st May, only light rain. They also claim there was no impact on river health. Unbelievable! Get a grip @DwrCymru
I haven't y ordered a parcel, it hasn't got my address on it, it hasn't got my name on it, so why leave it stuffed behind a plant in my front ?? Anything to say you've dropped it off somewhere to get paid i suppose......