Again slightly off subject but hey, we were discussing this and other crimes in teh office yeaterday and I am sure I read somewhere that in almost all crimes women get longer sentances than men. If a man murders someone they spend less time in jail than if a woman does etc etc And this is true for most types of crimes. I know there are some evil people in this world, but there does seem a culture of lock em up and throw away the key if a woman commits a crime.
And the anomily that exisits with 'white' collar crime. If you commit a crime against government (ie not paying the vat man) you go to jail for far longer than if you spend your saturday nights going out stabbing/beating people up. I heard that 3 men who racially abused, beat up and stabbed a mans puppy got off with being 'bound over to keep the peace' and no fine 'as they have no means to pay it'. These people ar efar more threat to society than Lord Brockett who committed insurance fraud and was snet down for a couple of years!! Bonkers