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Back to EpisodesMan's Love Claim Fails to Reduce Assault Sentence
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Sidney Thomas Knight, a 70-year-old man, was sentenced to four years in prison for sexually assaulting an unconscious man at his New South Wales home. Despite claiming love for the victim, his appeal was denied by the Court of Criminal Appeal. Knight, who had been married for 25 years and recently came out as gay, argued that his love for the victim should have reduced his sentence. However, the court ruled that love does not mitigate the severity of assaulting an unconscious person.
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