Hard in UK to cause broken leg in assault and not go to court/get custodial term unless there is lack of evidence.
Must be lack of evidence?
Admissions are pretty good evidence.
Admissions? Is that on the earlier thread? There must be something major in the way of a successful prosecution then. For all its faults, the system doesn't just go 'ABH/GBH + admission > slapped wrist'. What reason did they give for dropping it?