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RE: Man jailed for stabbing customer in Peterborough Subway branch having been told to wait in line for a cookie: Our courts & current government favour perpetrators feelings and circumstances over victims. Victims and their suffering, as well as impact on families are forgotten. Society needs to wrest back control from lily liveried liberal attitudes to crime promoted by liberal elitists

@LynesGeorge

Far too light. Surprised? Not anymore. Our system is all about

‘oh poor misunderstood man’ rather than punish people for committing crimes. It’s not wonder people do it they know they will pretty much get away with it. Country is broken.

@TheFett75

No deterrent is there. Stabbed a man because he had to queue for a cookie ffs. Lucky it didn’t kill the victim. Magistrates, judges, etc need to be looked at are they fit for purpose. Why such a lenient sentence. Utter disgrace

@steve8412

Christian, found guilty after two costly trials at the Old Bailey, given six weeks imprisonment, for that is what she was told she would serve by the Judge.

The system at present (tagging etc) means she could be out within four weeks.

At present our local MP has lost little. The whole episode falls into two categories.

First, the police time and public money spent at two Old Bailey trials can only be described as a farce.

Second, when an MP can be paid £208 per day for being incarcerated, walks straight out of jail into the parliamentary lobby and keep her job. This again can only be described as a Whitehall farce.

I know that I speak for 90 per cent plus of the citizens of Peterborough when I ask for a substantial increase in Fiona Onasanya’s sentence.

There should be no ifs or buts for a person who preaches equality.

She should be treated in the same manner as that given to local councillors – they were/are all public servants and as the Judge quoted in my presence, these pillars of society, respected by their local communities and because they knew exactly what they were doing they disgracefully betrayed the trust given to them by their electorate.

Charles W Swift OBE Freeman and Honorary Alderman of the City of Peterborough