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Chaytor, 18 months first offence? ..bit harsh
Now don't get me wrong I'm delighted to have a Noo Labour luvvie banged up but I can't help feeling that the sentance was a bit harsh. I mean there are burglars who have to do 20+ burglaries to get jailed. Is this a sentance designed to please the public? Would an unknown member of the public get 18months for arf inching 18k?
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If he had defrauded the govt/us by one false incident then I may have had some sympathy for the guy - but he made several claims that were blatantly dishonest and, if this the punishment for the crime that he deserves to go to jail for this period. Greed and nothing more.
I, like many millions of others, get frustrated at the sentences that the Law allows the courts to give to criminals. I read in a magazine the other week of two sentences meted out in the US. One guy got 75 years in prison and the other 4 death oenalties - you can be that those two won't reoffend.
I, like many millions of others, get frustrated at the sentences that the Law allows the courts to give to criminals. I read in a magazine the other week of two sentences meted out in the US. One guy got 75 years in prison and the other 4 death oenalties - you can be that those two won't reoffend.
It's not the fact that he's a first time offender, it's down to the fact that the guy was in such a privileged occupation, i.e. one of public trust as an MP which has contributed to his incarceration.
I have no sympathy for someone who deliberately put himself in a position of serving the public - purportedly - but who instead was helping himself to money at public expense. The sentence appears to reflect that, for I'm fairly sure that had Mr Chaytor been me or "just another person" he'd probably have received community service instead.
His liberty is the price he has paid - and justifiably in my opinion.
I have no sympathy for someone who deliberately put himself in a position of serving the public - purportedly - but who instead was helping himself to money at public expense. The sentence appears to reflect that, for I'm fairly sure that had Mr Chaytor been me or "just another person" he'd probably have received community service instead.
His liberty is the price he has paid - and justifiably in my opinion.
cont: The MPs view is best summed up by the Labour MP Barry Sheerman who described Chaytor as " The straightest person that most of us knew " Of course he was speaking as an MP and by their standards Chaytor is bordering on sainthood, and had it been left to them they would still be ripping us off . Even now they are trying to get rid of the independant review into their actions. I would use the word fiddles but of course in most cases they were only playing by their own rules.
If Chator wass 'the straightest man' i ever Knew, I'd be pruning my list of preiends with some vigour!
This is a man who invoved his mother in a rental fraud while she is in a nursing home with dimentia, and his daughter, whom her pursuaded to sign documents allowing him to claim rent on a flat he already owned.
Involving your family in such theft is beyond contepmt, so Jonathan Aitken is giving out sage words of wisdom in the Mirror today about life in prison is a bit rich - he perjured his own daughter in his fiddles!
This is a man who invoved his mother in a rental fraud while she is in a nursing home with dimentia, and his daughter, whom her pursuaded to sign documents allowing him to claim rent on a flat he already owned.
Involving your family in such theft is beyond contepmt, so Jonathan Aitken is giving out sage words of wisdom in the Mirror today about life in prison is a bit rich - he perjured his own daughter in his fiddles!
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