Attack pair's sentencing postponed again (From Times Series)
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Sentencing of Barnet attack pair delayed for second time by probation report
11:53am Monday 18th January 2010 in Top Stories
Attack pair's sentencing postponed again
THE sentencing of two men who savagely beat a man with learning disabilities in his Barnet home has been put back for a second time because of problems with a probation report.
Liam Sizer, 26, and Richard Spall, 23, both from Barnet, pleaded guilty in Decembre to attacking supermarket worker Jason Barrack in his flat in Lynch Road on August 11, 2008.
Both men had been due to be sentenced on December 21 at Wood Green Crown Court, but Judge Fraser Morrison ordered a probation report for Sizer to be reassessed.
However, this morning the judge had to ask for the report to be rewritten again.
He said: “On the last occasion I had concerns with the one sided nature of Mr Sizer's report and put back out with a view to a fresh report being prepared, not a rejigging of the old one by some one more senior.
“My expectation was that Mr Sizer would be seen by Somebody with a blank sheet of paper, so he feels he has a fair crack of the whip.”
He added: “What the outcome will be is in the lap of the gods.”
The pair are due back at Wood Green Crown Court on Monday, February 8.
