Another mother who watched West spank her daughter said, “He seemed to enjoy it, but I don’t know what he was feeling inside.”
Another mother testified that after West finished slippering her daughter, he knelt down beside her and said, “I am sorry, love, I had to do it.”
One witness alleged that three weeks after he spanked her daughter, West came to her home to request written authorization to use corporal punishment. She told the court, “He came to see me to ask me to write a letter to say that it had been alright to punish my daughter because one of the girl’s fathers was going to have his guts for garters for punishing his daughter that way.”
On September 30 1983, Colin West was given a 6 month suspended jail sentence.
He should, of course, have been suspended by the gonads over a slow fire.