{"id":437,"date":"2008-03-13T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2008-03-14T01:46:13","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T01:46:13","slug":"make-the-punishment-fit-the-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Make the punishment fit the crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at Canock Magistrates court 19-year-old Mathew Corfield of Higgs Road, Wednesbury was sentenced to five month&#8217;s custody in a Young Offender&#8217;s Institution.<\/p>\n<p>Some months ago at Essington near Wolverhampton and in the company of some of his friends, Caulfield trespassed on to a private field where he chased and cornered a piebald mare called Maggie.<\/p>\n<p>With the animal cornered he repeatedly hacked at it with a meat cleaver.<\/p>\n<p>Bleeding heavily, the mare was so frightened that she broke a leg as she tried to escape from the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard that Caulfield laughed as he cut at the horse.<\/p>\n<p>Five months?<\/p>\n<p>For hacking a horse to pieces with a meat cleaver?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at Canock Magistrates court 19-year-old Mathew Corfield of Higgs Road, Wednesbury was sentenced to five month&#8217;s custody in a Young Offender&#8217;s Institution. Some months<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}