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Originally Posted by garinda

I thought we were all supposed to be equal before the law?

The crime is really irrelevant.

This man was spared a jail sentence because of his age.

So we let off an eighty four year old for fraud. Where do we draw the line? Which crimes should the elderly be exempt from serving a custodial sentence for?

Kidnapping, child molestation, or is it ok as long as it is a 'victimless crime', which a younger person would serve a gaol sentence for?

We are but some are more equal than others whether you are the criminal or the victim.

No he wasn’t spared a jail sentence and he wasn’t let off either. His sentence was a 2 years jail sentence suspended because, as was reported, the judge contacted all the jails to see if they could accommodate an 84 years old. None of them could so he took the only option open to him. Don’t forget the "Artful Codger" and hid family were ordered to pay back £400,000 and I understand that there are moves to get more back from them.

As has already been pointed out, the victims in this case were the pseudo art intellectuals and it took them SEVENTEEN YEARS to discover that they had been duped. The Bolton Council should sue the ‘expert’ who verified the statue as genuine.

No crime is victimless. In any case why bring the highly emotive issue of child molesters into the debate? Or are you, as usual, just trying to stir things up a bit.