A teenage boy who broke into a hairdressing salon has been ordered to go on a six-month hairdressing course and, once he has learned the trade, then cut the hair of the judge who sentenced him.
Judge Emilio Calatayud sits in the youth court at Granada, southern Spain. He told the 16-year-old male offender, who has not been named, that he must learn how to cut hair as a punishment.
The judge told the boy that he is expecting to be the beneficiary of his handiwork once he has completed his training. The boy was told that if he disobeys the order, he faces being convicted for disobedience.
The teenager broke into the salon in Granada last May, causing damage amounting to 600 Euros (about $640). He also stole a hairdryer.
According to the Times of London, the judge is known in Spain as ‘el padrazo’ — the adoring father — because he has allowed many young criminals to avoid jail, making them pay their debt to society in other ways.
One boy who liked to draw was sentenced to spend 50 hours creating a 15-page comic that told the story of a boy called Enrique who rode his motorbike without insurance — the crime of which he had been convicted. He then had to show his work to paraplegic patients who had been injured in car crashes.
