Sunday Sun

Mike

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FOR some reason last week I got into my head a link between Theresa May and Lavinia Woodward.

Both have escaped what a fair slice of the public believe the proper punishment for their ‘ misdemeano­urs’ - one political, the other criminal.

And both, in the long run, will probably pay a higher price for being ‘let off’.

Woodward made headlines earlier this year when she was not jailed despite stabbing her boyfriend in a drink and drug fuelled frenzy as the judge decided she was too posh and talented to lock up. Or words to that effect.

At the hearing Judge Ian Pringle QC reportedly said he believed a custodial sentence would damage her career.

On Monday she was given a 10-month jail sentence suspended for 18 months for inflicting unlawful wounding.

I’m not trying to say prison is a cushy number but if Woodward had got time, however brief, it would have meant she would have become another quickly forgotten statistic.

But now she has a life sentence as the woman too posh and too clever to go to jail, a tag which will haunt her for many years to come and woe betide her if she puts a foot wrong again as any subsequent judge will probably throw away the key, no matter what

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