{"id":1296,"date":"2009-12-23T17:05:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2009-12-23T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:05:01","slug":"sentencing-probation-service-and-the-effect-of-a-release-on-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing &#8211; Probation Service and the effect of a release on licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-1298\" style=\"width:116px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Boy-George.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Boy-George.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Boy George<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The full effect of\u00a0early release on licence from prison\u00a0has been discovered by former Culture Club singer Boy George who failed in\u00a0judicial review proceedings in the\u00a0High Court to overturn a Probation Service\u00a0ban preventing him\u00a0appearing in the final series of &#8220;Celebrity Big Brother&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The singer &#8211; real name George O&#8217;Dowd &#8211; served time in prison for handcuffing male escort Audun Carlsen to a wall in his London home in April 2007, but was released early.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Justice Bean said,<br \/>\n&#8220;I consider that right-thinking members of the public would take the view that an offender serving the non-custodial part of a sentence of imprisonment should not be allowed to take part in a high profile, controversial television production, promoting his status as a celebrity and with considerable financial gain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Full judgment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solicitorsjournal.com\/Journals\/Solicitor\/Solicitors_Journal\/Vol_153_no_48_22-12-2009\/attachments\/Boy_George_2009_EWHC_3415_Admin.doc\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy George The full effect of\u00a0early release on licence from prison\u00a0has been discovered by former Culture Club singer Boy George who failed in\u00a0judicial review proceedings in the\u00a0High Court to overturn a Probation Service\u00a0ban preventing him\u00a0appearing in the final series of &#8220;Celebrity Big Brother&#8221;. The singer &#8211; real name George O&#8217;Dowd &#8211; served time in prison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}