Soft judge lets violent thug remove electronic tag to enjoy Mexican holiday with fiancee and daughter
Yob Barry Hunt moaned that suspended term and the tagging order would stop him going on posh trip until judge agreed to lift curfew for fortnight
A SOFT judge let a thug remove his electronic tag to fly on holiday to Mexico.
Barry Hunt, 31, was given the curfew after admitting affray.
He was already serving a suspended sentence for a brutal assault. But instead of jailing him, Judge Rajeev Shetty let him off with another suspended term and the tagging order.
Hunt then moaned he had a booked family trip to Cancun to celebrate fiancee Clare Dolling’s 30th birthday — and the judge lifted the curfew for the fortnight.
Clare posted Facebook snaps of them with their daughter, two, on the trip.
Last night Tory MP Philip Davies, who sits on the Commons Justice Committee, blasted: “Sun readers would rightly expect anyone breaching a suspended sentence to go to prison, not on holiday to Mexico.”
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Peter Cuthbertson, Director of the Centre for Crime Prevention, said: “There’s a simple answer if people don’t want the criminal justice system to interfere with their holiday — don’t commit crimes.”
Hunt, of Hitchin, Herts, was first convicted in April 2015. As well as the 12-month suspended term he was told to pay his victim £2,000 and said he could afford just £83 a month.
In November he admitted committing affray in Chalk Farm, North London. Judge Shetty gave him a six-month tagging order, 200 hours of unpaid work and a 15-month suspended term.
