he'd felt he needed to talk to John on this occasion but, again. when pressed he revealed that it was to ask John to "call off his older brother Chris It transpired that ever since the assault on John, Chri had b intimidating Michael, following him around and threatening to beat him up for breaking his brother's nose. Michael told the panel that he had been feeling very frightened by this and said he'd just wanted to ask John if he could ask Chris to leave him alone. Mr and Mrs Jones looked horrified by this disclosure. They immediately apologised to Michael and assured him that they would talk to Chris about his behaviour as soon as they returned home after the meeting. The panel meeting then went on to discuss issues of reparation (a letter of apology and some community work) but it was clear that the restorative work had been done during the course of the discussion and further reparation was not particularly important to the participants.