Can someone on IB be forced to do community service?

AimeesMum_2

Thank you so much Eskimo for showing some understanding :T:T

His lawyer has said that he was given a fine but the man from community service was extremely unhelpful and just said that if the didn't turn up for his appointment then a warrant would be issued for his arrest. The courts have it down as a fine was sentanced but no fine is there when you contact the fines office.

Don't really know where to turn from here.

I also had thought that it might be useful to be helping his recovery but his issues are very deep and his medication makes him snappy and sometimes incoherent. I worry that if he was with other people who don't always stay on the right side of the law that someone could get hurt

KxMx

Would it be possible for you both to see his GP? They could ask for the fine or for a more suitable community service task on medical grounds.

Sixer

AimeesMum wrote: »

Thank you so much Eskimo for showing some understanding :T:T

His lawyer has said that he was given a fine but the man from community service was extremely unhelpful and just said that if the didn't turn up for his appointment then a warrant would be issued for his arrest. The courts have it down as a fine was sentanced but no fine is there when you contact the fines office.

Don't really know where to turn from here.

I also had thought that it might be useful to be helping his recovery but his issues are very deep and his medication makes him snappy and sometimes incoherent. I worry that if he was with other people who don't always stay on the right side of the law that someone could get hurt

Is the problem that the fine has now been superseded by the community service order because of late paying? You mentioned the fine was given months ago but you only rang up to pay it a fortnight ago?

dseventy

eskimo26 wrote: »

Did you cross post? Difficult to think of consequences when your hallucinating, no?

Perhaps, does that mean the crime goes unpunished?

D70

eskimo26

Sixer wrote: »

Is the problem that the fine has now been superseded by the community service order because of late paying? You mentioned the fine was given months ago but you only rang up to pay it a fortnight ago?

Ring back the lawyer and ask what to do in this situation.

Sixer wrote: »

Is the problem that the fine has now been superseded by the community service order because of late paying? You mentioned the fine was given months ago but you only rang up to pay it a fortnight ago?

I understand it to mean that they are only 2 weeks into their 2 month deadline, although it was worded to be a bit confusing.

dseventy wrote: »

Perhaps, does that mean the crime goes unpunished?
D70

You really want me to answer that? How many of these mental health cases that the media loves reporting on end with the perpetrator getting a conventional sentence and how many end with them being committed indefinately?

Its a moot point anyway to this thread, the extra information indicates their has been a confusion in the sentencing, rather then someone looking to get the original sentence changed or trying to go 'unpunished'.

neverdespairgirl

We can't really help, because we don't have the details.

Go back to the solicitor who represented your OH, take all the letters, ask what's going on.

eskimo26

Fiver29 wrote: »

I reckon that post gets the award for most smileys in a single post.

You've been seduced by the smilies it should get the award for most useless 'informative' post on this part of the forum. All that writing and smilies and commpletely worthless in fullfilling its purpose, some of you sure have a lot of time on your hands.

tatonette

Why not approach the court with a view to asking the magistrates to look at the whole sentencing in the light of medical evidence.