How is this boy not considered dangerous? I am shocked

[shooooes]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5398n821rlko

14 year old boy stalked and stabbed a girl who refused to date him, however was deemed not dangerous by a judge and given a restraining order. What goes through these judge's minds? Unbelievable.

I don’t think it’s cold. It’s simply providing w about the reality of evidence needed for an RO.

I've not read the Wendy Joseph book, will look for it. The Secret Barrister one is excellent, I also follow them on Bluesky. As for this case, it makes my blood run cold and i feel such concern for the victim. It takes so much courage to report, then to go through the court process and for what? he's out there leading his life while she will be dealing with the negative effects of this crime forever. I am a survivor and it changes you, I am much better than i was when it all happened but I will now never go out alone after dark for the rest of my life. There are still things that trigger me but good therapy has given me useful techniques for dealing with them.

The sentence was 46 WEEKS in the above example. Not 46 months.

That’s insane and to be honest if someone did that to my daughter and faced no consequences I would be a danger to them even if the judge thinks they’re not a danger.

But he literally cannot be jailed, he's 14, YOI start age 15.

What else could the punishment have been I don't know.

Oops you’re right. My mistake.

dangrousness has a specific meaning in law and that is what is meant when courts refer to it

No danger to society, only a danger to girls he wants to own, so that is ok then. The men do not need to worry as he is not coming for them…. it’s only girls who are in danger= no threat to society 🤷‍♀️

But women and girls are just expected to put up with potentially hundreds of unwan and potentially disturbing messages until it reaches that threshold.

They could maybe suggest muting his messages or something. Instead society seems to expect girls to suck up harassment until the law decides its enough or the boy gets sufficiently angry to stab her.

He wont do 4 years.
He'll be out in no time, free to sexually assault again.

I'd bet the poster who made that comment didn't actually look at the details of the article and just made the assumption the attacker was black given the subject matter...oh the irony.

Not true. Children can be incarcerated from 10 years old. Just not in an adult prison.

Too lenient, like those lads who raped the poor girl and got off, until public outrage.
There needs to be public outrage with this too - this must be attempted murder, surely? The law is an ass as they say.

We really need to look at the ‘age of responsibility’. Many of these ‘boys’ are physically men, dangerous men, we can no longer afford to regard them as children. Naming and shaming and detention.
The SNP government here want to give 16 year olds the vote!
It doesn’t make sense.

This is a local story and the Mum of the girl has been very vocal on local news about their horror/frustration at this sentence.

If this kid is that dangerous at 14/15, god help the women who encounter him as an adult. He's been given a free pass to carry on behaving this way.

Poor girl. If it wasn't in that shop and if it wasn't for that shopkeeper then this could have been a very different story.
For the person who mentioned race, I wonder if the shopkeeper was not white 🤔

Came here to say this. The legal definition of ‘dangerous’ is not the same as the dictionary definition of dangerous.

You're right about the difference between a restraining order and bail, but I certainly wouldn't want to assume breaking it would automatically lead to jail

They're "full", remember, so when (inevitably) he reoffends I've not the least doubt another excuse for inaction will be found

I don't get it at all. There must be more to this than meets the eye but, even so, a stabbing is a stabbing.

We don't know enough about it. Has he been incarcerated for the last six months, maybe given treatment-medication?

Without full facts, we cannot judge but, on the face of it, his sentence is too lenient.

There is another case, quite horrific, in the news at the moment but we are told a lot more about the teenage perpetrator: www.itv.com/news/anglia/2026-10-07/masked-schoolboy-who-stabbed-girl-went-not-to-learn-but-to-kill

What does that mean?

If you sexually assault anyone in ANY way, you deserve much longer than 43 weeks

Why do you think 14 year olds cannot be jailed? The boys who murdered James Bulger were (in a YO facility but still.)

Surely this is wrong on so many levels…

Id happily support bringing institution for this kind of situation, say from the age of 12/13 upwards!

This country really can be a vile place to live for girls/women

Usually, yes.

One of them at least went into a secure children's home, I think the other in a secure unit. From the article it specifically talks about jail. Maybe I'm being too literal and she means in custody.