Claim: A man who assaulted his wife was spared jail because the judge didn't consider her "vulnerable".
Fact-check: When are domestic violence victims not "vulnerable"? - Full Fact
Verdict: the judge did mention that he didn't consider the victim to be "particularly" vulnerable. official sentencing guidelines required him to look into that as a possible aggravating factor in setting the length of the attacker's sentence. it wasn't relevant to his separate decision to suspend the sentence.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Conor James Mckinney
Date published: 2017-04-03T00:00:00