Rap Star Assaults Police Officer; Gets Slap on the Wrist
Jim Kouri, CPP
January 20, 2006
Rap star Ms. Dynamite was ordered to do 60 hours community work today after admitting to assaulting a British police woman.
The 24-year-old star was also directed by the Magistrates Court to pay compensation to Officer Caryn Marles whom she punched in the face at West End Central London Police Station on January 6.
She was in the police stationhouse as a result of an arrest for causing a disturbance outside a London nightclub.
The young recording artist has won several music awards including the British equivalent of a Grammy Award for best female artist. Her latest recording, Judgement Days, was released during the Christmas holidays in Britain.
Ms. Dynamite, appearing in court under her real name Niomi McLean-Daley, had already pleaded guilty to assault and a public disorder offense.
In sparing her a jail sentence District Judge Timothy Workman told her, “The injury sustained by that one blow was obviously more considerable than first thought.
I accept that it was one blow and in the circumstances bearing in mind your good character, you have never been in court before, you are entitled to a [lenient] sentence.”
The court informed her that the police officer sustained whiplash-like injuries from the blow, and has been on sick leave while suffering headaches and fainting spells.
Police officers in London are vocally upset over the lenient sentence and believe the rap star received preferential treatment. As far as the judge's comments about Ms. Dynamite's good character, he failed to take into account her arrest for an assault in a Chinese restaurant in 2004. The charges in that case were dropped. It's suspected she paid off the victim in that case.
The 24-year-old star was also directed by the Magistrates Court to pay compensation to Officer Caryn Marles whom she punched in the face at West End Central London Police Station on January 6.
She was in the police stationhouse as a result of an arrest for causing a disturbance outside a London nightclub.
The young recording artist has won several music awards including the British equivalent of a Grammy Award for best female artist. Her latest recording, Judgement Days, was released during the Christmas holidays in Britain.
Ms. Dynamite, appearing in court under her real name Niomi McLean-Daley, had already pleaded guilty to assault and a public disorder offense.
In sparing her a jail sentence District Judge Timothy Workman told her, “The injury sustained by that one blow was obviously more considerable than first thought.
I accept that it was one blow and in the circumstances bearing in mind your good character, you have never been in court before, you are entitled to a [lenient] sentence.”
The court informed her that the police officer sustained whiplash-like injuries from the blow, and has been on sick leave while suffering headaches and fainting spells.
Police officers in London are vocally upset over the lenient sentence and believe the rap star received preferential treatment. As far as the judge's comments about Ms. Dynamite's good character, he failed to take into account her arrest for an assault in a Chinese restaurant in 2004. The charges in that case were dropped. It's suspected she paid off the victim in that case.
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