The News of the World's royal editor got up to some despicable tricks in order to satisfy the prurient interests of his readers and it is right he should be brought to justice.
But at a time when our jails are so overcrowded that people are sleeping on the floor of police cells, is it really sensible to send him to prison?
It will cost the taxpayer money to feed and water him and I doubt if it will do him much good. Wouldn't it have been better to give him a community service order? Think of the good he could have done helping youngsters who struggle with reading and writing? According to one view I heard, illiteracy and drugs are the things most law breakers have in common.
Or let him decorate a pensioner's house, let him take some housebound soul out for trips at his own expense, let him wash Prince Harry's car.
There must be a thousand more useful things he could be doing rather than sitting in a cell feeling sorry for himself, probably to emerge feeling hard done by rather than reformed.
Saltaire Sam
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