So you've pulled Nigella Lawson...

[formant]

Give the woman a chance; maybe it was the first time, she's walked out and she's taken the kids and none of us know how long she'll stay away. It's also very unfair to expect her to act as an example to others in these circumstances; I think she has enough on her mind without worrying about 'the overall cause'.

I don't see what she's gaining from not making a formal police complaint - given that the whole story is already out in the open.

[Old Hack]

I don't see what she's gaining from not making a formal police complaint - given that the whole story is already out in the open.

Too late, he's been cautioned. They can't take any more action. More's the pity.

[Mich the Tester]

I don't see what she's gaining from not making a formal police complaint - given that the whole story is already out in the open.

She'll have her reasons and she's got enough to do. Have you ever reported a crime? I have and I can understand why people don't. If you're already feeeling tulipe about something and you're busy with your life, the idea of wasting half a day in a police station telling some semi-literate dipstick every detail of what happened 5 five times over while he struggles to spell 'assault' isn't exactly appealing and the idea of court cases and standing in the witness box after that is even less appealing. At least, that's how it goes at the police in NL and I don't imagine it's very different in the UK. The woman has a life to live and I hope she can get on with it without being preached at by people with 'a cause'.

[proggy]

I don't see what she's gaining from not making a formal police complaint - given that the whole story is already out in the open.

Maybe because all he did was hold her neck? Hardly crime of the century, happens week in week out in most sports, the police have cautioned him only because of the media spotlight on it. Not saying its right, but people are going on as if he beat the tulip out of her.

[Mich the Tester]

Maybe because all he did was hold her neck? Hardly crime of the century, happens week in week out in most sports, the police have cautioned him only because of the media spotlight on it.

Bloody hell proggy, you're really plumbing new depths of idiocy there.

[Old Hack]

Maybe because all he did was hold her neck? Hardly crime of the century, happens week in week out in most sports, the police have cautioned him only because of the media spotlight on it. Not saying its right, but people are going on as if he beat the tulip out of her.

It's an assault Proggy, 5 or 6 times as well. Dress it up however you like, but it's assault, illegal, and he's put his hands up to it.

[mudskipper]

I don't see what she's gaining from not making a formal police complaint - given that the whole story is already out in the open.

Because she loves/loved him.

[cailin maith]

Because she loves/loved him.

And because like most women in that position she is ashamed, embarassed, horrified and feeling like it was her fault anyway.

[cailin maith]

It's an assault Proggy, 5 or 6 times as well. Dress it up however you like, but it's assault, illegal, and he's put his hands up to it.

WHS

Bloody hell proggy, what's wrong with you?

[Mich the Tester]

WHS

Bloody hell proggy, what's wrong with you?

That would be quite a long list.