The school appears to be ignoring statutory guidance (which is basically as close to law as it is possible to get without being law). The guidance says that "Parents should be able to purchase g… (View Post)

The first sentence of your second paragraph is wrong, which means your entire argument fails. It is always possible to plead guilty to a lesser charge than the one the CPS has filed. For example, if … (View Post)

She could have indicated to the magistrates that she would plead guilty to the lesser charge. She did not do so. She therefore gets a smaller reduction in sentence. If I am charged with murder and pl… (View Post)

If you prefer, he did not take the letter into account in sentencing. I simplified that to saying he ignored it. And he isn't in any respects silencing the letter writers. He makes it clear that, if … (View Post)

There was a thread about this case on Mumsnet. I only scanned it quickly, but my impression was that the majority of those who understood the facts of the case supported the sentence. There were, how… (View Post)