Wise old judge shows us the way forward...

court reporter | 26.09.2005 12:31

A retired social worker from Devon has become the first woman pensioner to be jailed in England for refusing to pay part of an increase in her council tax.

Chairman of the bench at Exeter Magistrates' Court, Louis Crowden, said: "If everyone paid their debts on the basis of what they thought appropriate this country would descend into anarchy."