Judge alarmed about lack of lawyer as he jails woman for begging
The Guardian ‘It is wholly unsatisfactory that the system conspires against a vulnerable individual like this,’ Worcester court told Malvern in Worcestershire, where Marie Baker breached an anti-social behaviour injunction. Photograph: Alamy A judge who sentenced a “fragile and vulnerable” woman to five-and-a-half months in jail for begging has expressed alarm that no lawyer could…
