Am I wrong to think this is wrong ??

[rayer]

News report today.


A COUPLE nabbed £32,000 from Netto in a crafty cashback con.

Disabled Paul and Patricia Bates noticed funds were not debited from their account when they asked for money at the checkout.

After realising the computer glitch, they visited the store up to 13 times a day — 580 times in three months.

Store accounts officials finally rumbled them when they noticed an amazing rise in cashback transactions.

The pair pocketed at least £50 each time and splashed out on a £5,200 Mitsubishi Space Wagon.

Cops found £2,000 hidden in a biscuit tin at their home in Cleethorpes, Lincs.

Once they took out £350 after spending just £16 at the store in nearby Grimsby by asking for cash after every third item went through the till.

The town’s crown court heard IT engineers traced the problem to a chip and pin system that was not properly connected.

Paul, 45, and wheelchair-bound Patricia, 41, admitted defrauding £32,316.

Both were sentenced to 51 weeks’ jail, suspended for 12 months. The judge told them they would have been jailed had they not been disabled.

They will be tagged during a six-month curfew. Three others were cautioned for frauds totalling £7,000 at the store.

Check out the pic, they are just obese if you ask me.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1639805.ece


Where do we draw the line, they knew what they were doing but because of their 'disability' they dont get punished.

 

[Beerbaron]

The judge told them they would have been jailed had they not been disabled.

Thats disgraceful, lock them up with everyone else

 

[knip]

It is wrong but at the same time if there were no spaces in the prisons who could cope with their levels of disablity the judge would have no choice but to free them with the current state of overcrowding.

If it was a choice between a paedophile in a wheelchair and a petty thief in a wheelchair, I know who I would prefer to be locked up.

The disability shouldnt be an issue, BUT in reality it isnt always that easy.

 

[rayer]

Look at the size of them though, is that their disability ? Was the judge sympathic because there is no McDonalds in the clink.

They were doing wrong, they knew it, got caught and should be punished like everyone else.

 

[knip]

Look at the size of them though, is that their disability ? Was the judge sympathic because there is no McDonalds in the clink.

They were doing wrong, they knew it, got caught and should be punished like everyone else.

Sometimes people who have to spend their lives in wheelchairs end up being overweight due to their limited movement or due to drugs they have to take because of their disability.
Believe me I am agreeing with you its wrong, but like I said before there may not be any space for them in the jails.

(im gonna have you on the phone any minute giving me abuse arent i! )

 

[cobrax]

Not at all, i think its disgusting that they get better treatment than the rest of us for just being fat.

 

[rayer]

Sometimes people who have to spend their lives in wheelchairs end up being overweight due to their limited movement or due to drugs they have to take because of their disability.
Believe me I am agreeing with you its wrong, but like I said before there may not be any space for them in the jails.

(im gonna have you on the phone any minute giving me abuse arent i! )

Just knock 2 cells into one, that should accomodate their stomachs.

 

[Ben M]

positive discrimination at its finest.

 

[JBuk]

how utterly disgraceful ,they should have been tortured then killed to death!

 

[utajoker]

so to get off from going to jail you just need to be really fat?


surely this is discrimination, equal ops for all to go to jail.

 

[starfighter]

Meh. I would have done it. Nettos crappy machine, their fault.

 

[Whiskas]

Clamp their wheelchair! That'll show 'em!

 

[meghatronic]

I bet the disability is obesity.

 

[semi-pro waster]

Meh. I would have done it. Nettos crappy machine, their fault.

I'm going to go with a "huh?" here. So if you don't protect yourself against all possible harm then it is your fault when it happens? Dodgy moral, legal and practical grounds there I'm afraid.

Yes, Netto should have had a much more robust system in place (it seems it must have been inadequately tested as a minimum) but that is an oversight not an overtly criminal act (stealing/fraud) - they don't really equate in a scale of moral wrong.

 

[peterattheboro]

I'd make them pay it all back with interest.

 

[Vixen]

Sometimes people who have to spend their lives in wheelchairs end up being overweight due to their limited movement or due to drugs they have to take because of their disability.
Believe me I am agreeing with you its wrong, but like I said before there may not be any space for them in the jails.

I agree with what she said. I have a long-term illness which causes me a lot of pain and extreme fatigue if I do even a small amount of exercise, and I know a lot of other people with the same condition. Most of us have put on at least some weight due to this, as we physically can't exercise yet our bodies still need energy. I can think of one woman who used to be a professional dancer who is now 4st overweight due to her illness.

As someone who has had to suffer from an "invisible" disability for a while now, I think your attitude is disgusting.

 

[G18241]

Break the law > Prison, thats kinda how it goes no matter how disabled/over weight you are

 

[vincent1989]

i'm with knip and vixen, the woman could not go to prison, she is wheelchair bound, and many people wheel chair bound end up putting on some weight, you would too. the man, whilst clearly obese is also her carer, had he gone to prison that would have just put more strain on the NHS/council to put a carer in place.

they stole money, but i doubt all those complaining on this forum are snow white

 

[Tombo]

You don't seem to care that they stole a lot of money.

 

[Dolph]

That is shocking, things like disability, gender, sexuality, race, religion etc should not enter in to the decision on whether someone should be jailed for crimes they committed.