Sentence indicative of rotten system

THE recent controversy involving the courts, in which a vicious rapist got a three-year suspended sentence, is indicative of the rot that pervades the Irish judicial system.

Judges, who are answerable to no one, are able to hand down inconsistent sentences almost with impunity.

The sentences that given daily in Irish courts have less to do with the law and more to do with the judges’ moods, whims and biases. These people are living in ivory towers, untouched by the real world and the consequences of their actions.