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2 Years For Tush; He Tried To Abduct A Jogger
posted (February 8, 2013)
There's no such luck, for 38 year-old William Tush, a resident of Kelly Street, is spending the second night of a 2-year sentence after he was convicted of aggravated assault yesterday in Magistrate's Court.

Viewers may remember that in July of last year, a female jogger was held up on the Northern Highway, near the NAPA roundabout as she took her evening jog. She recounted to 7News how the attacker abducted her at knife point, but she was able to escape and alert a driver who rescued her.

Police detained him, and charged him with aggravated assault and wounding because in the process trying to get away, the victim got cut by the knife.

When Tush was arraigned initially on the charges, he attempted to plead guilty saying that he was drunk at the time, and he didn't even know the woman he attacked. Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer allowed him initially to consider carefully what his plea meant because of the stiff penalty for the charges, and he chose then to change his plea.

So, we fast-forward to yesterday when the victim came to court to testify against him. Before she could start, Tush informed the court that he again wanted to plead guilty. Because it is his first conviction for these offences, Senior Magistrate Frazer sentenced him to spend 2 year in prison for the aggravated assault, and 1 year for the wound. Both sentences are to run concurrently, so he will only spend 2 years in prison.

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