One thing I didn't really stress on my write up is a gut reaction that he was let off lightly given his background/education and job—I suspect if a building site labourer had done similar he'd have been straight to jail; no evidence, just a gut reaction.
I thought the same thing myself. I wonder if the judge might also have been a Cambridge man? But I didn't mention it because I thought it might look like Scottish prejudice!
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Date: 2007-Aug-21, Tuesday 14:45 (UTC)I thought the same thing myself. I wonder if the judge might also have been a Cambridge man? But I didn't mention it because I thought it might look like Scottish prejudice!