Pensioner escapes jail over noise complaints after daughter caused a racket
A pensioner, whose daughter caused a racket in his social housing flat, has narrowly escaped being sent to prison.
William Robinson, 68, from Walsall, was described as a ‘weak man’, who was unable to control his adult daughter, Lindsay.
But Judge Philip Gregory said he couldn’t see the point of further clogging up the already over-crowded prison system by sending Mr Robinson to prison.
Terrified of being locked up, Mr Robinson had moved out of his waterside flat in Cardan Pointe ‘at the eleventh hour.
Walsall Housing Group, now known as whg, took Robinson to court after neighbours complained of ‘shouting and screaming, the banging of doors and suchlike’.
