Assualt ocassioning actual bodily harm is charged when someone is injured or their body is harmed in some way. The injury or bodily harm could be as little as a red mark or a scratch and as serious as a fractured cheek-bone.
Anyone who assaults another person and causes injury or bodily harm, can be liable to 5 years’ imprisonment. If this occurs in the presence of another person, then the offence is “aggravated” and the defendant may then be liable to 7 years’ imprisonment.
However the court has the option to impose a range of sentences including but not limited to:
- Dismissing the matter without conviction
- Imposing a fine
- Issuing a good behaviour bond
- Community Service Order
- Suspended Sentence
- Intensive Correction Order
- Home detention
- Imprisonment (Jail)