2022-11-22
'Passive participant' in 'crime of passion' avoids jail
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Photo: Collins) A woman who was a "passive participant" in a "crime of passion", in which her friend broke into the home of a former partner's new lover and smashed her oven, has been given a suspended sentence. He noted she was a "passive participant" in the incident and he handed down an 18-month sentence which he suspended in full.