GBH with intent...

Thugs who beat a pensioner and threw him onto a railway line moments before a train arrived were sentenced to six years at Swindon Crown Court. I trust this was the sentence handed out to each as they were presumably equally guilty, though the report failed to mention this important fact.

Another example of inadequate reporting.

Alexander Graham (40) and Raymond Lawrence (24), after drinking eight pints each, headbutted and kicked Ray Beatty (71), a retired BBC editor.

Of what? Weak or strong beer, lager, cider, vodka... Tea, coffee?

The report actually read:

Alexander Graham (40) and Raymond Lawrence (24), headbutted and kicked Ray Beatty (71), a retired BBC editor, after drinking eight pints each.

[This very poor English suggests that Mr Beatty drank eight pints of ..?, even though it states "each". If I were a teacher of the English language I'd give an English student 4/10 as a score for this. A foreign student more as they could very easily make an error like this.]

He suffered head injuries and fractures. The two thugs (!!) followed Mr Beatty to the opposite platform as he tried to escape and were convicted of grievous bodily harm with intent.

Intent to what? Is that not attempted murder? Intent to kill? But no doubt cannot be proved. Physically throwing Mr Beatty in front of a train that didn't arrive for 'moments' no doubt gave him a reasonable chance to escape, even though he'd been headbutted and kicked and so, presumably, was barely conscious. Or unconscious?

With intent..?