M18CTID
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Chris in London said:M18CTID said:Chris in London said:Possible, not likely. From what I know of it (no much) the government hands down guidelines for sentences for particular crimes. So you start with the guideline, and you say 'okay, what makes this particular offence and this particular offender worse than the norm, and what makes them not so bad as most?'
Imagine you have a single mother with three children under 5 who has carried on claiming a benefit when she's no longer entitled to it so she can give her kids a slightly better standard of living. She got two grand from the DSS and now she's paid it back. Jail? I don't think so.
So the Judge might look at who the victim is, whether Arry has got form for tax evasion or other offences, the amount of the fraud, whether it's a one-off or an ongoing series of frauds and so on. So if 40 people all lose their jobs if he's sent down, he did it all on his accountant's advice, he admitted it when interviewed and he's paid back every peny plus interest and made a large donation to charity, maybe he gets a hefty fine and a suspended sentence.
I don't myself see that happening here, but you never know.
Ok, cheers mate. If a guilty verdict is reached, let's hope the judge is impartial in his sentencing ;)
Impartial? Bollocks to that, I want the Judge to be a dog-hating Arsenal fan with a hangover whose wife has just run off with Gareth Bale.
Well, that would be ideal lol. I meant impartial in terms of not going easy on him because he's a high profile football manager who is in the frame to be the next England boss.