Expenses cheat serves just a quarter of sentence
A | 20.09.2011 10:29
Former environment minister Elliot Morley has been released from jail. He was sent down for 16 months in May for swallowing £32,000 of expenses he had claimed he needed to pay a mortgage in Scunthorpe. But today he is a free man, having served just 4 months of his sentence.
As the smash and grab society prevailed, Morley stole huge amounts of money from the taxpayer. He got rich off corruption and abuse of the economic system that we're now having to pay to patch up. During his trial the court heard that Morley had "engaged in the wholesale abuse of the expenses system".
Morley has been released through the Home Detention Curfew Scheme, which since 1999 has played a large part in the rehabilitation system. Prisoners must serve at least a quarter of their sentence, and then be assessed for danger to the public. There's little hope then that our friends and comrades, behind bars for such crimes as stealing a bottle of water, will be eligible for this scheme. If so it's unlikely they'll be out of jail the second they've served a quarter of their sentence, as is the case for Morley.
We all got mighty pissed off by the expenses scandal. Politicians nicking public money we all worked hard to have stolen from us. The papers drummed up furore, the cops started getting involved and .... years down the line, a tiny handful of these scum have seen criminal punishment, and the benchmark has been set that the punishment handed down to the newspapers on the day of sentencing is in fact FOUR TIMES the punishment they will actually serve.
These daylight robbers have never, and will never be, accountable for their crimes against us.
Morley has been released through the Home Detention Curfew Scheme, which since 1999 has played a large part in the rehabilitation system. Prisoners must serve at least a quarter of their sentence, and then be assessed for danger to the public. There's little hope then that our friends and comrades, behind bars for such crimes as stealing a bottle of water, will be eligible for this scheme. If so it's unlikely they'll be out of jail the second they've served a quarter of their sentence, as is the case for Morley.
We all got mighty pissed off by the expenses scandal. Politicians nicking public money we all worked hard to have stolen from us. The papers drummed up furore, the cops started getting involved and .... years down the line, a tiny handful of these scum have seen criminal punishment, and the benchmark has been set that the punishment handed down to the newspapers on the day of sentencing is in fact FOUR TIMES the punishment they will actually serve.
These daylight robbers have never, and will never be, accountable for their crimes against us.
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