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Pregnant law students sentence reduced
- 31st March 2010
A law student convicted of assault has succeeded in having her curfew sentence reduced after she argued it ruined her experience of pregnancy and childbirth. Kirsty Sim, a 22-year-old student from Gloucestershire, was ordered to wear an electronic tag and stay home between 6pm and 6am for six months.
The sentence was reduced to three months by Gloucester Crown Court on the basis it was too harsh for a first offence and the effects it had on her pregnancy. She told the court of her desire to concentrate on her law degree and the possibility of work experience with a firm of solicitors. She also said the experience was making it difficult for her to get an evening job to help support her family.
Sim says the worry and stress caused her water to break 11 weeks early, and labour was later induced - with Group Four Security checking on her daily. She also received a warning letter that she had broken her curfew even though she was in hospital giving birth.
Sim was convicted of battery in May last year after pushing and head butting a pub landlady who had asked her to leave the Rose Inn in Stroud following a disturbance.
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