[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes, Guinness....I know. And I know that in France, for instance they choose which of the rules they will follow and how they will interpret them.
But my point of this thread was the apology of a woman that is this thugs mother.
She is not only a disgrace to motherhood, to womankind, to parenting, but she is an abomination of unfeeling indifference.
I wonder how she would have reacted if it had been her son who had lost his life.
I feel pretty sure she would have been baying for blood - not saying 'it's no big deal'.

The judicial angle was a side issue.