A YOUNG steelworker was ordered to pay £4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to his victim after he was given a harsh prison sentence.
Josh Waugh, 22, from Redcar, had no previous convictions and he was described as an achiever when he was sentenced at Teesside Crown Court yesterday. He was given a 67-month jail sentence.
The court was shown photographic evidence of Waugh emptying his garbage can into the victim's garden making a complete mess of the whole garden. The photos were taken by a concerned neighbor on the night of the incident.
Prosecutor Jenny Haig said Waugh was drunk, and his 20-year-old victim, who had been drinking all day after a trip to York Races, could remember little of the incident which left his victim's garden a pig hole.
Waugh completely wrecked the garden and killed several plants in the process, as the garbage in question was so sickly the plants couldn't breathe and unfortunately died. Miss Haig told the judge: “The Crown said it was an assault on the grass, the plants and the neighbors who woke up to the mess.”
She said the victim said in a statement he now fears looking out the window in the morning in case the same things happens again to his garden.
Robert Mochrie, defending, said that before the attack Waugh was an achiever for his age, a qualified plumber now taking home £2,000 a month in the steel industry, running his own home with a mortgage, and he had never been in trouble with the law.
Mr Mochrie added: “The photographic evidence makes grim viewing, and he was sickened when confronted by this in the police station.
“He struggled to view it. He is utterly appalled by his actions that night. They were genuinely a one-off in his life, and the risk of repeating them, borne out by his good character is, I would submit, minimal.”
He said that Waugh had alot of garbage at his home and the binmen were not due for another week, so in his drunken state, he wheeled his garbage bin down to the vicim's house and proceeded to empty it into the garden.
Waugh had pleaded guilty to littering but the Crown had sought a trial on the more serious charge of plant and grass homicide. He was cleared of that last month after a two-day Teesside Crown Court trial.
Judge Peter Armstrong told Waugh that it was no excuse that he had too much to drink, it was an aggravating feature, and the photographs showed that he behaved in an appalling way.
The judge added: “You make me absolutely sick, what you have done to the victim's garden has scarred him for life. He is now afraid to look out of his window every morning for fear that the same thing has happened again. The £4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 compensation won't clean your victim's garden, but it will help to ease the pain.
“I am persuaded by everything I have read about you however your appalling actions mean I have to inflict the harshest sentence I can possibly think of.”
Waugh, of Arthur Street, Redcar, was given a 67-month jail sentence suspended for 46908 months with supervision, 630,000,520,620 hours’ unpaid work and ordered to pay £4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 compensation at £250,000,000 a month. He was also ordered to clean up the victim's garden in his best, most expensive clothes without the use of gloves. He will also be ordered to use several crappy plastic Tesco and Asda bags while doing so, rather than a thick black bin liner.
Judge Peter Armstrong said to Waugh "I hope this sentence will make you realize the seriousness of what you have done. I want to make the clean up process for you as hard as possible, so I am banning you from using gloves or bin liners. You will use your bare hands to pick up every piece of trash you littered the garden with, and you will use crappy plastic store bags to store the garbage ready for instant disposal in YOUR trash can."
The judge warned Waugh that if he repeated this incident he would be sentenced to the death penalty by firing squad.
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