He said he’d been implicated in a group physical assault. He told me there was no physical or hard evidence, but there was the accusation of the victim. My husband proclaimed his innocence to me, but said that police were going to arrest him regardless, so a week later he turned himself in.
Handing himself in had nothing to do with being guilty or not guilty. As he told me, it was a matter of him choosing to keep what little dignity he had left. There was no way he was going to be arrested in public or in front of me or the kids.
As soon as he was arrested he went to jail and for the first two to three days we had no contact. That was in October last year and he’s still on remand, waiting for a sentencing date. The date keeps getting adjourned because the prosecution can’t decide exactly what they’re charging him with.
If my husband is found guilty, it’s likely that he’ll be in jail for up to four years.
