Why didn't he just use the force choke

...and avoid court altogether?

Darth Vader' spared jail in Jedi church attacks

HOLYHEAD, Wales - 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.

Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones — aka Master Jonba Hehol — with a metal crutch, hitting him on the head, prosecutors told Holyhead Magistrates' Court.

He also whacked Jones' 18-year-old cousin, Michael Jones — known as Master Mormi Hehol — bruising his thigh in the March 25 incident, prosecutors said.

More shocking than any of that is the last line of demographic information:

In the 2001 United Kingdom census, 390,000 — 0.7 percent of the population — listed Jedi as their religion.

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[Grant]

one of the best stories in quite some time. on my site too;

http://citizengrant.blogspot.com/2008/05/darth-vader-attacks.html