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Stafford Crown Court was told that there had been a strong bond between father
and son, but this broke down as 49-year-old Leonard Stone tyrannised his wife for
four years after losing his job.
Stone, said to be ‘quiet, well-spoken and non-violent’ by police, is the youngest
of six children.
His father became violent towards his 40.year-old wife Sylvia after losing his
lorry-driving job because of a drink-driving conviction nearly four years ago.
He became depressed and made several half-hearted suicide attempts – but
always when someone was close by.
He frequently attacked his wife – although several months could go by without
him raising his fists and he spent periods in a psychiatric hospital.
Yesterday Peter Stone, from Walsall, was put on probation for three years after
he pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Mr. Justice Kenneth Jones told him. ‘You are on
the threshold of your life. This is the inevitably a burden you will have on your
conscience and will have to carry over the years. I do understand the position in
which you found yourself.
I accept your father was a difficult man. Any father must understand nothing is
quite so insupportable in the eyes of a son as violence offered by a father to a
mother.”
And the judge referred to his courage in admitting the offence, and said he was
taking ‘a perhaps exceptional course’.
He said, ‘I do it because I have faith in you. I hope you will in the future do
everything in your power to justify the faith I am showing in you.
(from the Evening Standard)
7. Read the text and then work out the questions which go with the following answers
to both Text A and Text B.
TEXT A
Manslaughter.
Ten minutes.
26 years
Sausages, beans and
potatoes
He called an ambulance
TEXT B
A home-made knife
Quiet, well-spoken and non-violent
Because the father was violent to Peter’s
mother
Because he was convicted of drinking
and driving
Four years ago.
8. Discuss the following questions
a) Is it fair that the boy went free? Why do you think the court was sympathetic to
him?
b) Do you agree with the verdict of manslaughter for ‘Mr. Mustard? Why do you
think he was not accused of murder?
c) Do you think the law is too ‘soft’ where domestic violence, such as the ‘Mr.
Mustard’ case, is concerned?

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