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Originally Posted by Derek
It sends a message. You are allowed to protest but step out of line and we will hammer you.
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Yes, it will do that, but is still seems an utterly disproportionate sentence to me. Hell, people get up to worse than what he did on weekend nights in city centres up and down the country (with actual violence against persons), and they get nowhere near the sentence he did.
Apart from sending out a message, there is no purpose served by sending him to prison, let alone for 16 months. This type of offence is what community service was invented for. Letting the moron help out and speak to injured soldiers a day a week for a year would be a far more effective way of drilling some sense in to him.
It's stupid kneejerk sentencing, and I hope the appeal judge will have more sense and hand out a more appropriate sentence.