Please help calm. Facing prison sentence

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I'm due in court tomorrow for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

It happened six months ago and I'm pleading guilty so no trial etc.

No previous and I'm a person "of good character". But my goodness I'm bloody petrified.

I probably won't sleep tonight and I'll I keep thinking about is my dd.

Best of luck tomorrow, you don’t deserve to go to prison. You were intimidated/coerced. I hope it goes well & you can start to put it behind you. 💐

You shouldn't have to speak. You confirm your name and address and your plea but your solicitor does all the talking for you. The judge may ask you a question or 2 if they have things they want to clarify, but you shouldn't be made to prostrate yourself to the court; you've said everything during the pre-sentence report. The judge also usually gives a wee speach when they do the sentencing, stuff like "you've cause a lot of trouble here and I hope you see that" etc so you might need to nod away during that. But don't get worked up over being made to give a speech because they shouldn't make you.

Oh OP, how very very worrying for you. I agree with previous posters, I really don't think you will get a custodial sentence.

Please know though that whatever happens you will be ok. I know it won't feel like that but people really do survive. You will get through this.

I hope you are able to rest a little. Thinking of you.

Best wishes OP. Hoping you can find some peace tonight.

It sounds like whatever happens tomorrow, you've got the building blocks of a good future - work, friends, family, a lovely daughter and a good dp. You're going to be OK!

I sincerely hope you're all right.

I'd be fine if it wasn't for dd. She doesn't need the negativity around her.

I'm prepared if I do need to say anything. However whether they will get anything coherent out of me I don't know.

Good luck OP

I do feel for you and I’m usually quite hard on people who break the law but I do understand your position and can see that you are genuinely remorseful and not a person prone to behaving recklessly.

I hope that you are given clemency and that you are not incarcerated.

Best wishes to you.

@Aquamarine1029 no you're right he didn't "make". But at the time I felt like he had made me and I didn't feel I had a choice. On reflection I'm fully aware.

Hope you never have the misfortune of anyone like that coming into your life.

I'll be thinking of you tomorrow and hope it goes well for you xx

From all that you've said and how you come across, there's something dreadfully wrong with the world if you are sent to prison tomorrow. You sound really decent, honest & level-headed and coercive control can make people do the oddest of things. This is not you, it's a manipulative bully. Thinking of you and hope you manage even a bit of sleep tonight.

@FiremanKing thank you.

I know it all just spiralled out of control. I should have spoken with my parents as soon as I realised he had cocked everything up. But I didn't. I know why I didn't but that's another thread lol.

Ultimately I fucked up. I know that.

Thinking of you OP. I hope you can get some rest tonight and that this time tomorrow this is all behind you. Good luck, you don't deserve prison, not at all.

I'm sorry this has happened to you. What an awful situation. Will be keeping everything crossed for you tomorrow x

It’s easy to judge but not so easy to put yourself in the shoes of someone who has a history of being conditioned to submit & I suspect aqua does not have experience of this.

Hope all goes well tomorrow OP. Glad you have found an understanding partner now.

Im so sorry this happened to you. You sound like a lovely person who got dragged Into something bigger than them: I'm thinking of you xx

Good luck for tomorrow. I hope it's not custodial. There are plenty of people that belong behind bars, but you don't sound like one of them x

Gut feeling?. Suspended sentence of a year or therabouts.

If that even.

I can ask a QC/judge friend of mine but he's away at the momet.

Please let us know how it goes if you will.

Sleep well, I would!

Good luck tomorrow op.

Good luck tomorrow, OP.

Highly unlikely you’ll go to prison

I am sorry you encountered this person and were forced into a bad decision.

Good luck tomorrow

Good luck OP. You sound like a really nice person who made a bad mistake. I hope the judge can see that and you can stay home to cuddle your daughter xxx

@Aquamarine1029 What a staggeringly naive thing to say!!!! You've clearly never been on an abusive relationship!