A benefit cheat fiddled more than £5,800 in wrongful payments by keeping quiet that he was doing regular spells of work, a court heard.
He had a previous similar conviction, but failed to learn his lesson from his earlier brush with the law, Grimsby Magistrates' Court was told.Hah! And now it's the Big House for y...
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Thompson was given a three-month suspended prison sentence and 100 hours' unpaid work./facepalm
I know a magistrate pretty well. She thinks everyone in the dock shares her values. She would be pretty chastened by a slap on the wrist by a magistrate, as would I and most of your readers.
ReplyDeleteI did jury service and one of the chaps on the jury accepted that the defendant had probably done it, but didn't think it was a bad thing so refused to find him guilty.
£58 an hour, then. Is he paying tax on that?
ReplyDeleteAs Blue Eyes said.
ReplyDeleteIt's almost 'projection' untempered by any basic knowledge that to some the opprobrium is actually a badge of honour and a status symbol with no costs whatsoever.
Also I've often noticed that a persons opinion on how a crime should be punished is directly proportional to their belief that they could, in some circumstance, commit said crime (witness most peoples opinions on 'minor' theft as opposed to rape/murder/paedophilia).
It shines a whole new light on the 'punishments' handed down by judges and magistrates doesn't it?
That's not even considering most of 'the elites' views that the rest of we plebs 'don't know any better' and 'can't stop ourselves;.
Makes you LONG for the days when a bread thief was either hung, or deported.
ReplyDelete"She thinks everyone in the dock shares her values."
ReplyDeleteSurely, the very fact that they are IN the dock shows her how wrong she is?
"That's not even considering most of 'the elites' views that the rest of we plebs 'don't know any better' and 'can't stop ourselves;."
Or 'it's their culture'... :/