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  Thanks for the comments. Unfortunately my sister has now also lost her job over this. The local paper published a photo of her and my nephew outside the court with the headline "Mother assaults police officers." Apparently the article which followed was broadly sympathetic but the damage was done. We did ask the journalist involved not to publish the photo but he said it was up to the editor and out of his hands.
  
  The shop which she works in caters for the children of the wealthy clientele in the neighbourhood. The husband and wife who own it were aware that some of the clients would object to being served by a convicted criminal with her face in the newspaper. The wife went round to her home this morning, very upset, and asked her to tender her resignation. They have been very good to her in the past, for example closing the shop to attend the funeral when her husband died, and will be giving her a months wages in lieu and a good reference. She does not want to cause them any embarrassment and will have to go. Poor little devil, it is one thing after another.

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