Brutally attack an Aspie, get let off with community service

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This week, three men who brutally attacked a 17 year old with Asperger syndrome were let off with just 80 hours of community service.

This is an outrage and sends the message that crimes against disabled people are more acceptable than other crimes.

Almost 60% of people with autism and 9 out of 10 people with a learning disability have experienced bullying or harassment. It is clear that the criminal justice system needs to do more to protect victims and potential victims of disability hate crime.

A stronger sentence will send a message that criminal behaviour towards disabled people is not acceptable.

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If this Hate Crime had been directed at a LGBT person or a member of an ethnic minority the `sentence` would have been imprisonment for a long time.

If this Hate Crime had been directed at a LGBT person or a member of an ethnic minority the `sentence` would have been imprisonment for a long time.Act up-Stand up!

What city and country did this horrible incident take place in?

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is to review how it dealt with two high-profile crimes against disabled people, after police and prosecutors were criticised for failing to treat them as disability hate crimes.

Both the cases were investigated by Greater Manchester Police and received widespread publicity.

The CPS decision came after furious disabled activists attacked a judge who failed to jail three teenagers who carried out a sustained and violent attack on a disabled teenager – one of the two cases the CPS will review.

The three teenagers from Greater Manchester were this week sentenced to community service orders and curfews after admitting a series of assaults on the young man with Asperger’s syndrome.

The disabled teenager – who cannot be named for legal reasons – was repeatedly punched, kicked and beaten with a tennis racket. He was thrown down an embankment, pelted with dog mess, had his limbs scratched with sandpaper and was forced to drink vodka and gin until he passed out.

The three teenagers recorded the attack – which lasted three days – on a mobile phone.

Stephen Brookes, one of the coordinators of the Disability Hate Crime Network, said the judge’s decision not to jail the three men was “unbelievable”, and that one police inspector had told him it was the worst miscarriage of justice he had come across in 30 years as a police officer.

But there was also confusion about the failure of the criminal justice system to treat the attack as a disability hate crime.

Despite Greater Manchester Police (GMP) originally recording the incident as a hate crime in which the victim was “targeted because of his disabilities”, there was no attempt by prosecutors in court to treat the offences as a disability hate crime.

If they had done so, they could have asked the judge to impose stricter sentences under section 146 of the Criminal Justice Act.