Our thanks to a number of people for this.
It’s only lunchtime and already we’ve covered the story of a doctor not sentenced to prison after two cases of drunk-driving, because of the stresses of studying and work – it’s clear she wasn’t resilient enough to have been a medical student, let alone a doctor – and a woman not sentenced to prison after stealing £130,000, because of her father’s bereavement.
Justice for Men & Boys 
‘‘I did it and I have any excuse.‘
Not just any excuse but also every excuse, all as transparently thin as any and every other.
I note that, yet again, our old friends stress and alcohol were to blame for the terrible troubles that have befallen this poor woman. I could accept counsel’s plea of ‘pre-menstrual tension’ (I thought that had been changed to syndrome decades ago.) were it not for the careful and calculating way she carried out her crimes and the length of time over which she operated. Another personal difficulty is in understanding how it is that her mother’s efforts at making restitution mitigate in any degree the gravity of her crime: had she not been caught she would, presumably, still be at it.
What did she spend the money on?
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Thanks. I suspect that was a typo, and should have read, ‘… I don’t have any excuse’. In which case she’d have been right, making it even worse that the judge excused her!
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Yes I thought that too but couldn’t resist the opportunity.
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She must have paid the judge, she sure didn’t get away with it because of her pretty smile. Frightening!
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I have known quite a few young men who have behaved very badly. I used to hold it against them but now I know that it was just the stress of high levels of testosterone that made them behave like that and realise that they should not be punished. (its called equality)
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Amazing; if women find professional life so stressful that they cannot be held responsible for their actions, perhaps they should return to the domestic sphere ;p
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