Judge Dreadful

Via Calling England I learn of the drunklen old codger who hates politicians so much he is being sent down for shouting at Question Time.

Let be fair, he has pissed his neighbours of a fair amount, breaking a total of 27 ASBOs but 14 monmths!

This is what people go down for 14 months have done, (sexual assault and theft)
or this (massive benefit fraud).

But the judge William Hart in this case felt it reasonable to comment,

"What prison will do is enable his neighbours, for several months, to know that they can sleep quietly in their beds!"

Is that what prison is for these days? Because Judge Hart does seem to think about people sleeping in their beds rather a lot. (Though this time I think he was bang on with the sentence).