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Thief stole hospital worker’s life savings weeks before he was set to retire. Louise Collingwood: Hope her husband’s dumped her - no way I’d stay with my husband if he stole especially from a family member and of that age - poor man hope he gets it back ! Jackie Hopps: Wonder if she would have been jailed if she'd stolen from the judges family! Shocking the punishment needs to start fitting the crime. Margaret Rolfe: That poor man trusted her and she betrayed him how can she sleep at night hope they find a way for him to get his money back Tom Brown: Just no justice in this country now Laura Christie Simpson: Cool steal 14k from someone and get a suspended sentence but do the same to a bank and you’ll get life. Where’s the sense. Farce of a sentence man Susan Price Chipp: What goes through these judges heads? Where is the punishment these days

Geoff Emmerson: If she’s good she might get free holiday

Nicola Craddock: The abuse of trust as well as the stealing of the money Dean Marshall: What do these judges have in their heads??? Robert Middleton: Soft judges yet again. Bruce Adamson: Absolutely disgraceful. Kaye Sanders: Hatefull

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Government figures for the rolling seven-day rate of new coronavirus infections show that cases are still on the rise in Sunderland. Joanna Hindmarsh: People are getting fed up we just wanna get on with our lives Simon Campbell: More tests means more positive results. How shocking.