A judge allowed a 14-year-old boy who stabbed a girl 10 times to walk free from court after telling him prison was the ‘last place’ for a ‘bright lad’ like him.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, attacked the girl with a six-inch kitchen knife at a shop in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, on March 15 after he asked her out on a date and she said no.
In a brutal attack caught on the shopkeeper’s CCTV, the boy, from Wiltshire, grabbed her forcefully and stabbed her multiple times as she tried to flee.
Judge lets 14-year-old boy who stabbed girl 10 times walk free from court because he’s a ‘bright lad’ and prison is the ‘last place he should be’.
The judiciary do not deliver what right minded people demand. How do we have so many judges who prioritise the future of ‘a bright young lad’ over the future of an innocent girl.
The men in power today are yesterday’s ‘bright young lads’. They’re elite nonces and sex and defenders themselves. Why do we think nobody from any of our public services that facilitated the grooming gangs have ever seen a court room?
Why are all the social workers and police who covered it up still working? Why haven’t the councils been held to account? Because they’re all subhuman scum and why we continue to let them lord over us I don’t know. We should be doing what France is doing right now. But we’re weak cowards.
— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) October 28, 2026
