This will be of limited value if they don’t also address leasehold restrictions on pets. “No pets” is written into my landlord’s lease (and every leasehold contract I’ve ever seen) so they can’t allow us to have a pet even if they wanted to.
This is the UK. We don’t do plea bargains. There are sentencing guidelines which include giving credit for an early guilty plea but, in this case, I doubt it will make much difference to whatever sentence he eventually gets.
Because they’re going to throw the book at him regardless now.
He may also disagree with the “lawfully detained” bit of the charge, given that he has pleaded not guilty to the original charges he was due to stand trial for. But he doesn’t really have anything to lose either way. There are screaming tabloids on the case now, he might as well spin it out.
He’s got absolutely no reason to plead guilty. He’s not going to get a lighter sentence so he might as well cost them as much as possible by forcing a trial, and extending the news coverage of this embarrassing story.
Not a fan of the guy or his ideology but, from his perspective, this makes perfect sense.
These decisions aren’t about the cost of care, they’re about the interests of the individual and, in this case, not prolonging suffering unnecessarily.