A victim-less crime?



On a slight tangent - see below link, two lads jailed for one of them trying to get out of a speeding fine / ban. Wrong, but I hardly feel much safer with them no longer walking the streets.

Meanwhile, countless sick people / vermin (delete as you feel appropriate) are in receipt of 'Community Rehabilitation Orders' for downloading and distribution of Child Pornography. Too many examples to depress myself and others by posting a link(s).

Someone has presumably sat around a table during producing sentencing law and decided which one of the above offences was the more serious, and who the public should be protected from by removing them from general circulation. I would love to know who and tell them to sort them f***ing selves out.

Well known car dealers jailed over scam to dodge speeding points
 
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Couple of geezers got jail recently, found a viking treasure trove, the guy who buried it dead many generations past, no one knew the treasure lay below the ground for hundreds and hundreds of years, two metal detectorists found it and tried to flog it without declaring it, was there really a victim?
 
Jon Dough said:
Couple of geezers got jail recently, found a viking treasure trove, the guy who buried it dead many generations past, no one knew the treasure lay below the ground for hundreds and hundreds of years, two metal detectorists found it and tried to flog it without declaring it, was there really a victim?
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In that case, as the judge said "the farmer, his mother, the landowner and also the public". Treasure troves belong to the people with the discoverer and landowner/renter getting a share of the value.
 
Arkle said:
In that case, as the judge said "the farmer, his mother, the landowner and also the public". Treasure troves belong to the people with the discoverer and landowner/renter getting a share of the value.
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We the public wouldn't have got a penny, the landowner if the hoard hadn't been found would have been blissful in his ignorance, one of the detectorists got 10 years, the Hatton garden lot didn't even get that.
 
Jon Dough said:
We the public wouldn't have got a penny, the landowner if the hoard hadn't been found would have been blissful in his ignorance, one of the detectorists got 10 years, the Hatton garden lot didn't even get that.
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We wouldn't have got money but we'd have got the chance to see important historic artefacts that are now with some wealthy private collector (in addition to the value lost to academia when they basically laid waste to the site).
 
Arkle said:
We wouldn't have got money but we'd have got the chance to see important historic artefacts that are now with some wealthy private collector (in addition to the value lost to academia when they basically laid waste to the site).
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To me its a crime that didn't deserve the sentence, to you it's something a bit more serious, vive le difference.
 

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