Email: Pleased he was jailed

Published: Thursday, 29 December 2016

I was most pleased to read that one of the youths who attacked that teenager on the [Stourbridge Canal] towpath had been jailed.

 

That gang had been terrorising towpath walkers for months now, and I for one was about to be stopped by them, but luckily for me there was a group coming towards me, so I turned back and walked with them, as I know what would have happened.

But what your report failed to say was that the girl with that teenagers who was attacked was also pushed about, for they had no respect for anyone.

There are now Twitter reports of how terrible it was that such a young man had been jailed, but no sympathy from me, or, I should imagine, others who have come across them. He got what he deserved, and I hope he learnt his lesson that you cannot attack people and steal their possessions and get away with it, and that towpath will be safer now.

H. Parkin