Former Lord Chief Justice Woolf, always renowned for his idiotic stance on sentencing policy, has revealed his true colours since retiring.He is now insisting that only people who use violence should ever be jailed.
All I can say is that I have sat in enough courts over the best part of a decade to be able to add a few more things to his rather skeletal list:-
Abuse of bail,
Breaking Court Orders,
Persistent Offending,
Dangerous Driving,
Burglary,
Most sexual offences,
Mugging,
Arson,
Driving whilst disqualified,
Serious Theft,
Most Frauds and
Excessive or persistent drink driving.
To name just a few out of many.
The man should himself be locked up. He is clearly an ongoing social menace.
LINK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/18/nprison118.xml
