• mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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    15 days ago

    I’m guessing he’s going to get away with it because the rules don’t exist in the first place or some other such technicality.

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        14 days ago

        The posh Public School educated High Court judge will send him away after conviction with no penalty with the reasoning that “The shame of a conviction is penalty enough”.

        (As has actually happened before when a judge convicted some posh type for Fraud for a second time and sent him away with no penalty)

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            14 days ago

            The was described by somebody in the user comments in The Guardian, maybe more than a decade ago.

            I don’t even know under which article in that newspaper it was anymore.

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      14 days ago

      The UK managed to do something about various pedos they had in power, so there is hope. Although they didn’t do nearly enough to them, so the hope is very small