Judges need bringing into line
Justice in this country is fast becoming a farce, sentencing has nothing to do with the crime committed but is based on your appearance in the dock or your standing in the establishment.
Recently a young women was arrested for shoplifting in Harrods to the tune of £1,000, but was let off a prison sentence by the judge and was given a conditional discharge because he said that she was obviously a talented, intelligent person. If she was intelligent then she would have known that what she was doing was illegal, and as for being talented, why was she caught? But that is what a pretty face can do for you.
Following that a billionaire socialite went on a 17-hour drinking binge while in charge of a child (babysitting), she was fined just £500, which for a billionaire socialite is not even pocket money, but nevertheless being a billionaire would have placed her very high on the establishment pecking order, enough said.
We also have a lady judge who was caught faking a will for two cottages valued at £325,000. She was jailed for six months, that is just over £54,000 per month. Needless to say she did resign her post as a judge, but what about the judgements that she had made on any person that appeared in the dock before her, just what sort of standard was she judging on?
Another judge who stated that he did not like sending women to jail, gave a women 18 months suspended for two years. This women had stolen £38,000, so she earned that for no charge except that she was to pay it back over a set period of time.
Then we have a surgeon who has 60 points on his driving licence but is still driving on the roads as the magistrates said though he was speeding it was to save lives. I just wonder if the magistrates at some future time could be called in as an accomplice if the surgeon in question has a serious road accident where there are several fatalities caused by his speeding. And does this mean that all surgeons are exempt from speeding?
Then there was the fraudster who by using a blue badge vat dodge swindled the tax man out of £458,000 and was given a 12 month prison sentence. This works out at just over £25,000 per month. As old Arthur Daley would say, a nice little earner, but then it is as I have always said, there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, yet the establishment still says that crime does not pay.
Just who are they kidding?
Mr K Beddis, Yockleton
