Comparable sentence

A MAN who threw turpentine over his sleeping friend and set him alight, putting him in a coma for a month and leading to the amputation of his leg, gets five years in jail (Mail).

A needy girl who pretended to be a bloke to have sex with a girlfriend gets eight years. What’s going on here?

Name and address supplied. I have just read about Gayle Newland being sentenced to eight years in jail for pretending she was a man and have sex with another woman.

She was accused of rape despite the other woman consenting to sex wearing a blindfold.

Surely rape is sex without consent? Something must be done about this miscarriage of justice.

M. MALONE, Carnoustie, Angus.