Hi all,
Long story short:
The boyfriend and I were in a heated argument, which lasted approx 5 mins. At one point, he had his back to me and I was trying to turn him around and grabbed him by the arm, which he says scratched him. Following that, his car door was locked and I was asking him to unlock it and knocked on it.
He says I made (two barely noticeable) dints. He reported all this to the police last month when upset and now regrets it. As I was emotional that day too I stupidly told the police all that happened while in absolute tears. I’ve never been in trouble with the law about anything before so I didn’t realise I pretty much pleaded guilty as I admitted told them I grabbed him but didn’t mean to scratch him if I even did.
It all went to court and even though he asked them to drop charges as it was all unintentional on my part, they still went ahead and charged me with assault and damage to property (even though the car is also paid by me so technically my property) the judge could see it was an emotional day for me that day and it was a small petty heated argument, and with myself having no prior run in with the law offered a “no conviction recorded”.
I was advised by the lawyers there that this would not show on my criminal record as I was enrolled to begin a nursing career and midwifery course at Uni.
However after looking into all this I can now see that even no conviction recorded still shows on my record. Has anyone experienced this before? Can anything be done to remove this completely off my record? Will going back to Uni and studying something in the healthcare field be a waste of time with something like this on my record...
So stressed and depressed about this entire situation.
Thanks in advance.
Long story short:
The boyfriend and I were in a heated argument, which lasted approx 5 mins. At one point, he had his back to me and I was trying to turn him around and grabbed him by the arm, which he says scratched him. Following that, his car door was locked and I was asking him to unlock it and knocked on it.
He says I made (two barely noticeable) dints. He reported all this to the police last month when upset and now regrets it. As I was emotional that day too I stupidly told the police all that happened while in absolute tears. I’ve never been in trouble with the law about anything before so I didn’t realise I pretty much pleaded guilty as I admitted told them I grabbed him but didn’t mean to scratch him if I even did.
It all went to court and even though he asked them to drop charges as it was all unintentional on my part, they still went ahead and charged me with assault and damage to property (even though the car is also paid by me so technically my property) the judge could see it was an emotional day for me that day and it was a small petty heated argument, and with myself having no prior run in with the law offered a “no conviction recorded”.
I was advised by the lawyers there that this would not show on my criminal record as I was enrolled to begin a nursing career and midwifery course at Uni.
However after looking into all this I can now see that even no conviction recorded still shows on my record. Has anyone experienced this before? Can anything be done to remove this completely off my record? Will going back to Uni and studying something in the healthcare field be a waste of time with something like this on my record...
So stressed and depressed about this entire situation.
Thanks in advance.
