Man Jailed For 9 Months For Smashing ATM
Earlier convicted of smashing an HSBC ATM because it “ate his card”, 32-year-old Paul Williams will spend the next nine months in prison.
This was the sentence handed out by Senior Magistrate Archie Warner this morning [May 16] after he had read and reviewed a psychiatric report on Williams. The pre-sentencing report had been requested at Williams earlier hearing when Williams had pleaded guilty to smashing the ATM which was at White’s Supermarket in Warwick.
Commenting from the report, the Magistrate said that the report confirmed that Williams had a mental disorder, and that several times, Williams had been in and out of MAWI for treatment.
The report’s diagnosis was that Williams had a cocaine induced psychosis and was schizophrenic. Continuing, the Magistrate said that the report indicated that Williams’ condition could be managed by using appropriate medication but that Williams refused to regularly take prescribed and available medication.
The Magistrate told Williams: “If you medicate as ordered, you should be alright. You have been in Westgate for the past few days and you have been doing alright. You know you have a psychiatric problem but you refuse to accept help for it.”
The Magistrate then sentenced Williams to nine months in prison. The Magistrate also made an order that Westgate should give Williams all available mental health treatment and should enter him in programs while he was in custody.
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He is as pissed off with HSBC as the rest of us . Just that he acted out .
9 months for smashing an ATM and yet only a suspended sentence for getting a 12 year old to perform oral sex on you. What is this country’s sentencing policy all about?
Crimes against humanity are fine, but leave the ATM out of it, it didn’t do nuffin to no one.
Ah well, at least he did not shoot it to get what he was after.
Shoulda put his d*** in it lol probably would have got a suspended sentence.