Is this Justice?

[cia260895]

FFS do they not know there is a recession on


Another 1 for the dole queue

[paulhouk03]

I am about as far away as a person could be from a Daily Mail reading, "lock 'em up and throw away the key" right wing zealot.

But, is this the most lenient sentence in the history of the British Justice system:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7927267.stm

If I had just read the story and they had left out the details of the sentence I would have expected her to get about 15 years.

Thoughts anyone?

hmmmmm seems pretty good deal for her

sell boats buy 142 properties have 1.2 mill cash and deny that you knew u was selling to drug dealers
and i am not good at accounting is pretty funny.

[ScottMGee]

Amazing sentence - £20m vs 2 years suspended sentence!
If I was younger without family I would be very tempted to get into this business.
Even if the confiscate all your assets, imagine the lifestyle you could have led until you were caught.

[AndrewT]

Er, didn't she just plead guilty to tax evasion?

Forget all the drug boat stuff, they bought some houses, rented them out and then didn't tell the taxman. This was after they took nearly £1.5m off her.

[Robert HM]

Sh1t. I wrote a post and lost it in the ether. It's possibly on the wrong thread somewhere. Roughly it went like this.

I don't like to form an opinion based on a flimsy news report. There is so much information missing, such as:
What were the actual charges?
Was she an active participant?
Was she led?
Did she facilitate the offence?
What help did she give the investigators when arrested, or even before?
Did she fully understand what was happening?
Did she have full knowledge?
Was her offence committed by turning a blind eye?
Any pressure from spouse?
Was she left in lumber to face the music?
So much more info required to even start to form an opinion. So until that info is available I can't say that the sentence is anything other than spot on. So I will refrain from jumping on this particular bandwagon.

[thetank]

Sh1t. I wrote a post and lost it in the ether. It's possibly on the wrong thread somewhere. Roughly it went like this.

I don't like to form an opinion based on a flimsy news report. There is so much information missing, such as:
What were the actual charges?
Was she an active participant?
Was she led?
Did she facilitate the offence?
What help did she give the investigators when arrested, or even before?
Did she fully understand what was happening?
Did she have full knowledge?
Was her offence committed by turning a blind eye?
Any pressure from spouse?
Was she left in lumber to face the music?
So much more info required to even start to form an opinion. So until that info is available I can't say that the sentence is anything other than spot on. So I will refrain from jumping on this particular bandwagon.

She looks pretty shifty in the picture like.

Hope this helps

[The Camel]

Sh1t. I wrote a post and lost it in the ether. It's possibly on the wrong thread somewhere. Roughly it went like this.

I don't like to form an opinion based on a flimsy news report. There is so much information missing, such as:
What were the actual charges?
Was she an active participant?
Was she led?
Did she facilitate the offence?
What help did she give the investigators when arrested, or even before?
Did she fully understand what was happening?
Did she have full knowledge?
Was her offence committed by turning a blind eye?
Any pressure from spouse?
Was she left in lumber to face the music?
So much more info required to even start to form an opinion. So until that info is available I can't say that the sentence is anything other than spot on. So I will refrain from jumping on this particular bandwagon.

Robert is right.

As usual.

[cia260895]

Sh1t. I wrote a post and lost it in the ether. It's possibly on the wrong thread somewhere. Roughly it went like this.

I don't like to form an opinion based on a flimsy news report. There is so much information missing, such as:
What were the actual charges?
Was she an active participant?
Was she led?
Did she facilitate the offence?
What help did she give the investigators when arrested, or even before?
Did she fully understand what was happening?
Did she have full knowledge?
Was her offence committed by turning a blind eye?
Any pressure from spouse?
Was she left in lumber to face the music?
So much more info required to even start to form an opinion. So until that info is available I can't say that the sentence is anything other than spot on. So I will refrain from jumping on this particular bandwagon.

She looks pretty shifty in the picture like.

Hope this helps

must be guilty then

no smoke with out fire and all that

[boldie]

Sh1t. I wrote a post and lost it in the ether. It's possibly on the wrong thread somewhere. Roughly it went like this.

I don't like to form an opinion based on a flimsy news report. There is so much information missing, such as:
What were the actual charges?
Was she an active participant?
Was she led?
Did she facilitate the offence?
What help did she give the investigators when arrested, or even before?
Did she fully understand what was happening?
Did she have full knowledge?
Was her offence committed by turning a blind eye?
Any pressure from spouse?
Was she left in lumber to face the music?
So much more info required to even start to form an opinion. So until that info is available I can't say that the sentence is anything other than spot on. So I will refrain from jumping on this particular bandwagon.

sigh...if you can't base your opinion on a flimsy news report what can you base your opinion on?

And Tank is right...she looks shifty...so must be guilty.

[relaedgc]

She could have sung like a bird to Customs about her "clientèle" for all we know. I am sure there's more going on below the surface than we're privy to.