Woman uses MMA training to choke out a sex attacker when forced to the ground

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Source: http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/20/female...-home-5206569/

This guy picked on the wrong lady and the court is suitably impressed!

When a sex predator punched a woman, dragged her over a wall and jumped on top of her, he had no idea who he was missing with.
Five minutes later, he was unconscious, and his ‘victim’ was dusting herself off.
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But the woman, who had two years of kickboxing under her belt and had taken a self-defence course, put the man in a triangle choke – a submission hold that involves wrapping your legs around the neck of the other person and cutting off the blood flow to their brain – and put him to sleep.
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Willis’s DNA was found in the crotch of the woman’s shouts [sic.]. He was quickly arrested and admitted to actual bodily arm but denied sexual assault.
The jury, however, convicted Willis of the latter charge. He was sentenced on a date to be fixed.
The judge awarded the woman a £500 reward, ‘a tiny token of the court’s appreciation of what she has done to bring about the apprehension of Willis.’

[ItachiZaku]

I want to wrestle with Paige VanZant. In pudding.

[Blueobelisk]

Pretty damn badass.

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"He was sentenced on a date to be fixed."?

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MMA is awesome

[Puremallace]

While sometimes lacking in upper body strength if women knew how to use their legs while fighting they could roll over any non trained dude EASILY

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Nice.........

[Dispraise]

Noice.

10 chairs.

[triplesdsu]

Outstanding.

[GrinningMan]

Source: http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/20/female...-home-5206569/

This guy picked on the wrong lady and the court is suitably impressed!

badass bitch is not a victim.

Everyone can take a page from this woman.

[Wildtree]

I want to wrestle with Paige VanZant. In pudding.

I can totally get behind that pudding idea.



OT... well played lady.. well played.

[Drekker17]

That's so cool. I probably should start exercising, at this point a 80 year old grandma could kidnap me.

[pateuvasiliu]

So they sentenced him on a he said she said thing?

I don't get that, how can they do that? The best they can do is prove that he was put in a choke hold. Why do they assume he attacked her instead of it being the other way around?

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So they sentenced him on a he said she said thing?

I don't get that, how can they do that? The best they can do is prove that he was put in a choke hold. Why do they assume he attacked her instead of it being the other way around?

1. We do not have enough information to make a judgement one way or the other. You would have to at least read the actual legal summary.
2. This is the UK. There are almost certainly cameras somewhere that caught some aspect of the encounter, even if it is him stalking her.
3. Willis already admitted assaulting her (*).
4. DNA from the guy's hands were found on the woman's crotch. Presumably, it is within the court's discretion to assess intent behind the assault plus any other information we have not been given, thus they decided there was enough evidence for a sexual assault charge to stick.
5. Willis was jailed in 2011 when he tried to drag a woman into his van, after he attacked a couple and punched the man to the ground.

This is definitely a case where it could have ended MUCH worse for the woman either way. That is, since she was unable to get away, she could have been raped or killed. Alternatively, since she has had martial arts training, it could have been misapplied in an extremely stressful, life-death situation like this one and ended up killing or maiming the person. The latter is more likely than you think, especially from strikes to the head, landing with head or back on the ground or choking someone for longer than a few seconds after they are knocked out from blood loss to the brain.

(*) The UK does not have plea bargaining like in the US. If he admitted to that, it was entirely due to him and the pressure he felt from the evidence.

[Barnabas]

Now more women will enroll in self defense classes to tip the scales in their favor.

[ciggy]

That's gotta hit the ego pretty hard.

Not when you lead with the MMA angle :P


really glad to see something like this. awesome shit

[Calfredd]

"He was sentenced on a date to be fixed."?

Poor wording but I think they meant "He was sentenced on a to-be-determined date". Maybe.

[Mormolyce]

I love that they paid her a finder's fee...

So they sentenced him on a he said she said thing?

I don't get that, how can they do that? The best they can do is prove that he was put in a choke hold. Why do they assume he attacked her instead of it being the other way around?

It's a jury trial, they make a decision on the balance of the evidence. On the basis of everything presented they made this conclusion.

I'm not sure if UK law applies a "beyond reasonable doubt" standard to the particular crime he was convicted of (I assume "attempted sexual assault" or something?), but even if it did the jury might've believed that it was.

Anyway, you don't know all the details of a trial based on some article on the internet. News sites aren't legal authorities.

[Usagi Senshi]

That's gotta hit the ego pretty hard.

Good! That douchenozzle deserved it!

[Celista]

Now more women will enroll in self defense classes to tip the scales in their favor.

Yeah, that would be terrible if women had a competitive advantage by learning how to defend themselves from sexual assault I'll just assume that wasn't what you meant by that statement...