Judge Durham Hall offered to pay the teenager’s court fine (picture: UPPA.co.uk)

A judge offered to pay a teenager’s court fine after hearing she had stabbed a paedophile who abused her as a child.

Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC refused to impose a mandatory victim surcharge on the 15 year old as he spared her jail.

Convicted shooter wet himself when his gun went off, court hearsHe added: If anyone tries to force you, I will pay it myself.’

Bradford Crown Court heard the girl stabbed her tormentor when she felt let down by the justice system.


The paedophile has destroyed her life, prompting Judge Durham Hall to spare her.

He said: ‘It would be a disgrace to send a survivor like you to prison.’



She was 14 when she thrust a large kitchen knife into the 56-year-old man who sexually

assaulted her when she was eight-years-old.

Isis plot to target Europe’s beach resorts with bombs under loungersShe felt the legal system had let her down when he harassed and bullied her after walking

free from court.

In November last year, the girl, who cannot be identified, went round to the man’s home in

Bradford, West Yorks, with a knife.

She told him ‘I am going to kill you.’ before stabbing him.

She then handed herself in to police telling them what she’d done and she was arrested for attempted murder, which was dropped to GBH with intent.

Judge Hall wished the girl good luck before reassuring her that ‘things have changed’.