[jambutty]

They banged up Ronnie Biggs because his crime was against the royalty in the form of Royal Mail train that he robbed. If he had just robbed an armoured car or a bank I doubt very much if they would have thrown the book at him and his cohorts.

The Chairman of Guinness was a “captain of industry” and thus well in with the ‘establishment’.

Pinochet was a friend of Maggies.

Just been announced that the guys who stole £53M whilst threatening people with guns got a minimum of 15 years each.

However to answer the question, age should have nothing to do with the type of sentence. The severity of the crime should be the sole yardstick for handing down a sentence and not whom the crime was committed against.