DAVID WILLIS

David Willis

The teenager who carried out the glassing in a ‘feral’ attack was a persistant offender who had roamed the streets uncontrolled since the age of just three, Judge Gilbert at Plymouth Crown Court was told.

The court heard that David Willis was on his way home at 6pm with friend Darren Plummer carrying 15 cans of beer when they were approached by a gang of five youths and when Mr Willis refused to buy the underage lad any beer or tobacco, he was attacked.

In the unprovoked attack David Willis was punched in the mouth, verbally abused and then hit with a broken bottle which left him with injuries needing 37 stitches, just because he refused to buy the boy beer and cigarettes! (David Willis)

Jason Beal, defending, said the boy had suffered neglect from birth and an utter absence of any form of meaningful control from the days he could walk and his parents were violent offenders and drug addicts.

"From the age of three, he was wandering around the streets uncared for." He said the defendant’s siblings had followed the same route as their parents.

The victim, mechanic David Willis said: ‘I can’t remember a lot of it. It was a shock that someone that young could do that. For some time afterwards I didn’t feel safe outside my own home. I’ve had a lot of trouble sleeping and still get a lot of pain in my ear."

So another persistant offender is allowed to commit crime after crime, learning that the law will not attempt to curb his feral behaviour until he finally attacks someone so viciously that he ends up in court - and what is the sentence this feral youth got - nine months in detention and nine months being trained in custody - what a farce since he can expect to be out in half that time!

But why did Social Services allow a child of three to "roam the streets" especially since he had "suffered neglect from birth" and his parents were violent offenders and drug addicts?

Because like ALL public services these days, they just couldn't care less and it is decent people like David Willis who are paying for their uncaring and indifferent incompetence!

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