Latham escapes criminal conviction

Mark Latham has escaped having a criminal conviction for malicious damage recorded against him today. Instead he will be placed on a good behaviour bond for two years

The Director of Public Prosecutions dropped charges of assault and theft against him even though there was a previous incident of assault (cab driver…broken arm in 2001) and he did deprive the photographer of the use of his camera by stealing borrowing it, taking it back to his home and smashing it with a mallet in a shed.

I heard a radio report saying defence had asked that no conviction be recorded as he hasn’t been in trouble before. I know that he wasn’t charged for breaking the cabbies arm but it is public knowledge

Lathams main defence was that he was harrassed by the photographer and that was obviously sufficient reason for the judge to go easy on him.

Whatever the sentence, he’s still a thug in my book.