Weak judge in OCD case
A HABITUAL burglar with 14 previous convictions covering 29 crimes breaks into the home of an elderly couple and is let off jail because he suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder and cannot bear the sight of dirt.
Well, first of all he seems to be quite prepared to take the risk of encountering dirt when he embarks upon his burglaries unless he has already inspected his victims’ homes and sprayed his accomplices with Dettol. Second, the prison authorities would be only too delighted to let him keep his cell as spotless as he liked and third he should have thought of the risk of encountering a dirty prison when deciding to launch himself on a life of repeated crime.
The judge should lie down and take an aspirin. Anyway whatever happened to the law that we passed when I was in the Home Office making a prison sentence mandatory for a third offence of burglary? Obviously it was swept away by the tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime party. Dirty work!