You’d really think judges would have got the message by now, but of course they live in another (male, public-school educated, London club) world. The latest is the judge who told a millionaire’s son (of course), that he could write a letter of apology to get off a sexual assault charge.
The introverted businessman had been “led into temptation†after the women, all Swedish and in their early twenties, had agreed to go back to his hotel for some food after a night out in Central London, the judge said.
He told the Old Bailey that, under normal circumstances, Modi could expect a jail sentence of up to eighteen months but that he was instead being given a six-month suspended sentence. He would also have faced a stiffer sentence had one of the victim’s friends not awoken and started screaming during the attack. By then Modi was half-naked, had removed the victim’s jeans and knickers and was lying on top of her.
You can just hear the expensive lawyer spinning the “innocent sheltered lad” story – for a man of 33 who’s travelled extensively in the West.
And that the judge thought it was the women’s fault…
After sentencing Modi, Judge Roberts said: “I suspect that this situation of having three women asleep in his bed and sofa would have been somewhat confusing. It was, of course, that situation that led him into temptation.â€
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