I read the following news article in the local online rag concerning a club treasurer intentionally defrauding a bridge club of up to £23,000.
The club became suspicious and plod were called in and arrested her. She went to court and admitted all charges. Inevitably, her lawyer said she “expressed remorse” for her first offence.
Anyway, the stupid judge gave her suspended sentence and that she must complete rehabilitation work and a 12-week, electronically monitored night time curfew – which to my mind bares little relationship to the crimes involved.
The judge finished off by saying it was regrettable no compensation could be ordered, saying: “It seems to me there is little prospect of this money being paid back.”
Therefore this cunt pinches £23k and ends up with a poxy sentence, while the club and its members end up with fuck all. But what is particularly niggling is the use of “expressed remorse”. Which basically means “I’m soz for what I did, but only because I got found out!”
If it ain’t mental health as a lame excuse its this “remorse” shite used in mitigation, and juries and judges fall for it.
Perhaps old Osama binliner could have used that excuse had he been captured and taken to the International Criminal Court. “Sorry, guv, for killing 3000+ infidels. Will a bit of remorse do for a suspended sentence?”
Load of bollocks!
Nominated by Technocunt.
Admin, could you add this article covering the same kind of ground and pathetic outcome despite fiddling a company out of almost £100k to the point of almost closing it down for good and making its employees redundant!




