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I can't really add much to PeterE's reply above however:

There used to be in the judicial process called mitigating circumstances; I know as it stands, that those in the judicial process are having pressure applied with regards to being able to think for themselves but I didn't think it that bad. The health and likelyhood of reoffending would have been taken into consideration pre-sentence, as far as we know, there is little likelyhood of this chap ever committing the same or similiar offence again, unlike those who commit crime to feed a habit. The fact that these addicts continue to rob and mug people, only to time-and-time-again, get let-off with fluffy rehabilitation programmes, whilst a man who swopped some points with his son gets banged up, shows a serious imbalance in the system that people will not tolerate.

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If the sodding courts know that addicts will reoffend when they get out of jail, then lock them up until they decide it in their interests to NOT reoffend. THis is half the problem, the courts come down heavily and attempt to make an example out of an old man, yet REPEAT offenders get let off with 'rehabilitation'.

I think I could tolerate this sentence if perverting the course of justice were still always taken as seriously as it was 10 years ago. I remember at the time of the Aitken case that a commentator said it was unheard of for someone convicted of that offence to receive anyhting other than jail.

What really gets me is that since then lower sentences have been frequently given but totally inconsistently. Some get away with a lower sentence, while other perfectly ordinary otherwise decent people still get jail, in cases that are indistinguishable.

Remember the parking attendant who fabricatred evidence? Several aggravating factors and a far more serious offence than points swapping: no jail.

I read about this in a newspaper last week. It made me feel physically sick.

I don't know what to say other than I want to emigrate ASAP.

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