Are Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce a real danger to society?
Are Huhne and Pryce a real danger to society?
So asks Geoff Ford in his weekly Ford’s Focus column in your Telegraph today. Read an excerpt below and add your comment… and read Ford’s Focus in full in your Telegraph.
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Chris Huhne
IS it a waste of public money to house Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce in prison for however much of the eight-month sentences they serve?
As wealthy people, should they be billed for their time behind bars?
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Or should they have been given some sort of meaningful or demeaning community payback punishment for colluding to avoid speeding points. How about filling potholes?
I've always felt that prison should be reserved for people who are a danger to society - those of a violent, predatory or thieving disposition.
I wonder how many couples in Britain have 'conspired to pervert the course of justice' in relation to speeding or other motoring offences?
Hundreds, thousands? Any thoughts that they might be shopped after a relationship breakdown will disappear after the jail terms handed out to this tragic couple.
Huhne and Pryce, high profile people, did pervert the course of justice and justice takes a very dim view of this. It is a vengeful institution when it is challenged, particularly by those who think they are beyond its reach.
But should the gravity of the original offence weigh in the judgement? Surely there is a difference between a wife on the one hand taking speeding points and on the other claiming her husband was at home when he was out burgling, raping or worse?
If a child drops litter and a mother falsely claims responsibility should she go to jail?
4 Comments
by Fitties1
Saturday, March 16 2013, 7:52PM
“Ridiculous, especially when there are more serious offences being punished with community service or a suspended sentence.
We should keep the jails free to accomodate those that are dangerous
These two have been publicly humiliated, surely that was enough”
by nukedragga
Friday, March 15 2013, 10:56PM
“Nah, just boring.
Anyone who obsesses about windmills, either for or against has gotta be boring, just like our OCD MAN who posts on this site ad nauseam. Mind you OCD MAN is more boring because he frets about, coal dust, councils, councillors, council tax, GT, Fitties residents..... just as much.
Some people are just boring and sad, it's the nature of the beast.”
by verge_ill
Friday, March 15 2013, 1:40PM
“In my opinion he doesn't deserve to go to jail because of this particular conviction, however, it would have been much more deserving if the charges had been his green policies while fulfilling the role as government minister for energy.
Wasn't it Huhne responsible for allowing private energy companies to rob customers with their casino style pricing policies and hundreds of tariffs?
Also, in the name of saving the planet with his environmentally friendly policies, didn't he force consumers to pay double the cost for their gas and electricity?”
by wecamethru47
Friday, March 15 2013, 1:00PM
“Would these questions be asked if he had hit someone while speeding?”