Recently, there have been two criminal cases of interest in our area - both involving women.The first of these was a woman who cried 'rape' and made up a rapist.
This terrorised her community, undermined so many other women who have been raped and probably wasted hundreds of thousands of pounds of police time.
The second was manageress of a shop who skimmed regularly from the till. In legal jargonese, this is called 'theft in breach of trust' - arguably, the worst stealing of all.
When I trained for the magistracy, both of these would have received significant prison sentences.
The two have much in common. Neither received any form of custodial sentence.
Two questions are begged:
Was this reverse sexism? - Because believe me, it does exist.
And, just who are the 80,000+ languishing in our prisons if people this deserving do not 'go down'?
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