[Vicky.]

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/910917-d...-courage-claim

While sentencing Richard Rochford, Judge Peter Bowers told the 26-year-old: ‘It takes a huge amount of courage as far as I can see for somebody to burgle somebody’s house. I wouldn’t have the nerve.’

Handing Rochford a suspended 12-month term, Judge Bowers told him: ‘I’m going to take a chance on you.'

He claimed prison ‘rarely does anybody any good’ but acknowledged the trauma inflicted on the 26-year-old’s victims.

I despair of our justice system, I really do. Some judges seem to have their heads well and truly planted in the clouds and I find it quite scary that such idiots can have so much power :/