[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Seems like a ridiculous sentence to me. No one should be sent to prison for having a pee, even in the streets, and even if he'd pee'd directly onto the memorial.

Seems like they're trying to send a message about the crazy sentences that will follow before it's all over.

Could have been the perfect opportunity to utilise community service. Send him to work with a minority charity for a couple of weeks, but no one benefits from him being in prison.

I fully agree.

It can be assumed he had previous but in the absence of that as a fact, we can't apply that with certainty, this sentence is in my view, a 'making an example of'exercise.

As you say community service would have been far more appropriate.