(The great failing -- or crime? -- of Burgess's book is that it's raceless. The anarchy of youth street crime is 100% white, there are no wogs or blax in sight in the whole Kubrick movie. The main criminal loves Beethoven, not hiphop or gangsta. So it's been coming true in a Camp of the Saints sense, but here's an iconic female "Alex" to bring it hatefully, shockingly full circle- NN)
Woman avoids jail for vicious beating and robbery when judge says prison would ”upset” her family
UK – A single mother of two has avoided a jail term for a vicious assault on a drunken night out after a judge said going to prison would “upset” her family.
Claire Steeden (picture), 32, repeatedly punched and kicked Anthony Murray when he came to the aid of a man she and was attacking with another woman after they were thrown out of a nightclub.
The nursing home care worker and friend Mary Wharton, 35, left the 24-year- old unconscious in a pool of blood whilst they stole his £400 iPhone, another phone and £150 in cash.
The victim was taken to hospital but has been so badly affected by the beating in Blackpool, he now fears leaving his own home, going to pubs or nightclubs and being out in the street at night...........
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