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Originally Posted by punky
Considering:
1. He pleaded guilty
2. Its his first offence
3. His previous good character
4. The person he stole from was his friend, and although it doesn't say, he could well have spoken in defence of the thief.
5. Most of the money went back into the masons, and so to charity. The rest helped out a friend with his mortgage.
It hardly makes him Hitler. He was lucky to have his sentence suspended, but its not a major miscarriage of justice.
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1. OK
2. No
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The prosecution said Butcher, who became club secretary in 1999, had been forced to resign from the force in 2002 over allegations of dishonesty and impropriety, unrelated to the golf club theft.
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3. See 2.
4. Thieving from a friend is OK ???????????
5. No .. it went to pay his £16000 loan and a mortgage for a friend. !!!
This last bit is suspicious .. why is he paying a mortgage for a close friends house ???
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.......as well as paying the mortgage on a house of a close friend.
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Hang the bu**er !!!! Another bent copper
He should have the book thrown at him just as it would have been at you or I, even more since he was supposed to be a person of trustworthiness and status.