{"id":88722,"date":"2018-02-06T13:36:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5ca447424022b56aa581fb58f36caf92"},"modified":"2018-02-06T13:36:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:36:26","slug":"press-release-violent-robber-gets-more-jail-time-for-attacking-pensioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=88722","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Violent robber gets more jail time for attacking pensioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Birmingham robber who punched an elderly man in the head over 20 times for a torch will spend longer in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The term was increased after Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC MP referred his original sentence to the Court of Appeal as unduly lenient.<\/p>\n<p>On 19 January 2017, Kenneth Field, 31, attacked the 72 year old man who was on his way to buy a newspaper. He knocked him to the ground and punched him in the face a total of 24 times. The victim was left with heavy bruising and swelling to his face. He also suffered a fractured eye socket, and had multiple wounds &#8211; some of which required stitching.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before the robbery, the offender had visited his former partner, in breach a restraining order prohibiting him from doing so. When she refused to let him in he smashed her kitchen window.<\/p>\n<p>When Field was arrested several days later he threatened to punch the police officer.  He also claimed it was a case of mistaken identity.<\/p>\n<p>Field was convicted of robbery, criminal damage, breach of both a non-molestation order, and a restraining order at Birmingham Crown Court last November. He was sentenced to 5 and a half years in prison. The Court of Appeal agreed the sentence was too low and increased it to 8 and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the hearing, the Attorney General said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The offender launched an unprovoked attack on a defenceless man who was just going about his daily business.  He used such force that he broke the victim\u2019s eye socket. I hope the increased sentence sends a clear message that crimes of this nature will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prison term increased for Birmingham robber after the Attorney General challenged the original sentence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}