No action to be taken after revenge attack

Press, 16 July 1983, Page 11

No action to be taken after revenge attack

NZPA Nottingham A father who used an axe and a knife to attack a man who had indecently assaulted his two little daughters, will not be prosecuted, the Nottingham police said yesterday. The decision came just three days after a man, aged 29, was given a twoyear sentence, with 18 months of that suspended, for beating up a man who had sexually assaulted his handiicapped daughter, aged eight. The police said that in the most recent case, the victim, an unemployed man, aged 32, needed 30 stitches and had to spend a week in hospital. He was questioned by the police, but made no complaint about the assault.

As a result no action would be taken against the father. At Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday, the man, from Newark, Nottinghamshire, admitted indecently assaulting a girl, aged between six and eight years on two occasions between January 1980 and November 1982. He was jailed for 15 months for indecent assaults and a further 18 months for fraud. A day earlier, a Wrexham man was jailed at Chester Crown Court, in the northwest of England, for beating up a man who had sexually assaulted his daughter. The court was told that the father punched and kicked the man, who suffered a fractured jaw, a fractured nose, severe facial

bruising and cuts, two black eyes, and injuries to his loins. He was in hospital for two weeks. The judge, passing sentence, said: “The injuries that you inflicted were serious. They were inflicted when you were inflamed by concern for the wrong that he did to your small daughter. “That is no reason for 18 months later committing an offence such as this. There were reasons, probably sound reasons, why the police took the course they did. The court heard that after the original assault on the little girl, the police took no action because the next day her attacker was voluntarily admitted to hospital for six months as a psychiatric patient.