Dean James Henry Leo Cooper and Robert Lee Kleyn, who assaulted an Indian cab driver.
Posted on 11/12/2009 10:40:51 PM PST by myknowledge
AN Indian student was racially vilified and assaulted by a pair of construction workers while working part-time as a cab driver - but both will walk free.
Dean James Cooper, 20, and Robert Lee Kleyn, 26, pleaded guilty in a Brisbane District Court charged with assault occasioning bodily harm in company and stealing.
The court was told the pair had been drinking heavily at a building industry function in June 2008 when they hailed a taxi driven by an Indian national living in Australia on a student visa.
Once in the cab they began hurling racist abuse at the man, and spitting food over the floor and the driver.
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Dean James Henry Leo Cooper and Robert Lee Kleyn, who assaulted an Indian cab driver.
Looks like a couple smug thugs. I suppose in a few years they’ll mellow out and grow up.
No excuse for this.
> Judge Searles sentenced Cooper to six months jail and Kleyn to nine months jail.
> He ordered both be immediately released on parole.
And the panty-waist “Judge” lets them go with a slap on the wrist with a wet bus ticket. Disgraceful.
I just love legal talk.
the pair had been drinking heavily
Goes without saying.
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