ONE OF the lead items on BBC Breakfast covered the appalling increase in abuse directed at shop-workers at the hands of customers who refuse to wear masks or follow social-distancing guidelines.
The examples shown were shocking, especially the clip of a woman, who, angered at being asked to follow the one-way system in a grocery store, proceeded to cause thousands of pounds of damage - sweeping hundreds of bottles of wine from shelves to smash on the floor.
But what left me spitting blood was the fact that the anti-social cretin responsible was 'punished' with nothing more than a caution.
At the very least she should have been made to clear up the mess, pay for every bottle that she broke, fined and jailed for a minimum of six-months, with no opportunity for early release - whatever the hardship to her family.
The judicial system in this country has become a farce.
In fact there is no finer example of an oxymoron than 'Bitish justice'.
A direct result of successive governments listening to the 'advice' of do-gooders!
Frankly, I am fast coming to the conclusion that computers could do a better job of dealing with criminals than those who purport to dispense justice in the circuses that our courts have become.
Angry doesn't even begin to describe how I, and I'm willing to bet, tens of millions of us, feel at the
increasing injustice in the way the law is (not) enforced in our country.
Bob Readman
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