Ryan Guntrip punched his girlfriend, Carina Mac Kay, when she was pregnant. On June 18th 2013, they were at Mac Kay’s house at Clacton, Essex and they were arguing. He told her he wished he’d never got her pregnant and then punched her in the stomach, the next morning she realized that she was bleeding and she went to the doctor to run some tests, and found out her baby was dead. Guntrip, who had a history of violence, admitted assault; he was on license because of previous attacks to people.
The court only gave him 16 weeks in jail because the doctors couldn’t prove that he was the cause of death of the baby, so they could only charge him for assaulting a woman. Carina said that the night of the assault he was drunk, throwing things everywhere. She also told the court that at the beginning of the relationship he was overprotective with her, and that he didn’t let his ex-girlfriend go anywhere near them. She described him like the best men, but that in time he became aggressive, especially when he was drunk.
The judge only accused him with assault to a woman and gave him 16 weeks, even though he could charge him for a longer time given his violence record, but he also gave him a restriction order to say away from Carina.
In my opinion he should have been charged with more time, given that he hit a woman and that he has got a record, proving that he has done it before. Hitting a woman is one of the worst things that a man can do, and he should not only get a restriction order but to pay her for the damage that he caused, physically and psychologically.
Martín Montoya 8A
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