A friend's son, C, had a row with his long term girlfriend and it got out of hand resulting in him pushing her.
Obviously he's an idiot for doing that, despite a back story and depression.
He has been told by the police that they will caution him.
I'm concerned that this will damage his future job prospects as he'd like to a a sports teacher in some format, likely to want to work with children. An enhanced CRB will show a caution for assault . I'm pretty sure most clubs / schools wouldn't accept that.
I looked on Gov.uk website and it says a caution is for over 18s and 10-17yo should get a reprimand or a warning. Or, if they deem it to be serious, they can of course charge him.
I told him to check what they were planning to do, hoping he'd confused caution with warning, and today they've said it will be a caution and they (the police) can do what they like. This was back up by the solicitor I advised him to ask for.
The police are awaiting psychology reports (C has recently been diagnosed with depression) before formally giving him the caution.
Is this right? Despite the info on gov.uk, the police can issue a caution to a youth?
I'm furious with him over this bit wouldn't want to see his life's ambition ruined by his idiocy in his teenage years.
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ShiftyFades · 30/07/2013 14:23
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