Damning sentence

Hard to know who’s the real villain of this doomed canoe trip

'John and Anne Darwin, who last week began sentences of more than six years each for having defrauded insurance companies. That’s roughly what you’d get, on average, if you raped someone and 19 times longer than the average sentence for people convicted of knife crime.'

Ain't law great? We seem to have more than one?

No link, but an email from Ch4 that is a neat summary of a situation, with their own take:

NAOMI'S RAGE SPARKS MEDIA CIRCUS
Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers and threatening behaviour. She has been sentenced to 200 hours community service, must pay £2,300 in fines and £200 compensation to each of the police officers. And the detail of what actually happened is pretty stunning, and she tried to make race an issue at the time. It occurs to me, the day after Big Brother aired the eviction of Alexandra for alleged threatening behaviour, that young black girls in Britain are not currently seeing the best role models.

I am less interested in the issues of race and/or role models, but certainly in the way the law works, and hence note this for future reference in case a precedent is required.

As I understand it she committed both assault... and battery... on a police officer, in a plane. The consequences for this action seem... interesting, all things considered.