{"id":2898,"date":"2008-05-14T23:36:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T05:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/darth-vader-spared-jail-in-jedi-chuch-attacks\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T18:41:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:41:04","slug":"darth-vader-spared-jail-in-jedi-chuch-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/darth-vader-spared-jail-in-jedi-chuch-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Darth Vader Spared Jail in Jedi Chuch Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/darth-vader.jpg\" title=\"darth-vader.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/darth-vader.jpg\" alt=\"darth-vader.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOLYHEAD, Wales<\/strong> &#8211; A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones \u00e2\u20ac\u201d aka Master Jonba Hehol \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with a metal crutch, hitting him on the head, prosecutors told Holyhead Magistrates&#8217; Court.<\/p>\n<p>He also whacked Jones&#8217; 18-year-old cousin, Michael Jones \u00e2\u20ac\u201d known as Master Mormi Hehol \u00e2\u20ac\u201d bruising his thigh in the March 25 incident, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The two cousins and Barney Jones&#8217; brother, Daniel, set up the Church of Jediism, Anglesey order, last year. Jedi is the faith followed by some of the central characters in the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; films.<\/p>\n<p>The group, which claims about 30 members, says on its Web site that it uses &#8220;insight and knowledge&#8221; from the films as &#8220;a guide to living a better and more worthwhile life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all love the films and what they stand for. Obviously some people are going to laugh about it,&#8221; the Wales on Sunday newspaper quoted Barney Jones as saying last month. &#8220;But a lot of people do take it seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Hughes, his March attack was recorded on a video camera that the cousins had set up to film themselves in a light saber battle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Darth Vader! Jedis!&#8221; Hughes shouted as he approached.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes claimed he couldn&#8217;t remember the incident, having drunk the better part of a 2 1\/2-gallon (10-liter) box of wine beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He knows his behavior was wrong and didn&#8217;t want it to happen but he has no recollection of it,&#8221; said Hughes&#8217; lawyer, Frances Jones.<\/p>\n<p>District Judge Andrew Shaw sentenced Hughes to two months in jail but suspended the sentence for one year. He also ordered Hughes to pay $195 to each of his victims and $117 in court costs.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2001 United Kingdom census, 390,000 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 0.7 percent of the population \u00e2\u20ac\u201d listed Jedi as their religion.<\/p>\n<p>Read Darth Vader Chuch Attack Source Article\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLYHEAD, Wales &#8211; A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-KK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6611,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/6611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}