Funeral Director steals charity donations.

She stole money from grieving families, money meant for charities.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...ving-families/

The justice system shows it's blatant gender biased sentencing once again.

If this had been a male he'd now be serving at least 3 years

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I don't know how she has avoided jail

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Yes I saw a bit of that on the news Tpin, I was very surprised she wasn't jailed. It's the same here they always go easy on the women in the courts for some strange reason.

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Did you notice the picture in the article showing all the cheques she's tampered with to commit fraud? There's loads of them.

This is hardly at the level of filching a few coins out of a charity collection dish.

She deliberately diverted cheques and even provided the grieving relatives with fake thank you letters for the donations received. (not)

I wouldn't have a clue how to tamper with a cheque to that degree.

I love how the psychiatric report said ... she was under stress and pressure and suffering depression.
She should go to jail. A morally despicable crime.

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The jails are full to overflowing.
Crims guilty of fraud where there are no obvious victims rarely go to jail these days

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Committing a crime, be it man or woman, should carry the same degree of punishment. The real problem is that lawyers have found a way of getting sympathy for their clients and thereby a reduced sentence!

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I agree Twink.

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I agree. If all the money we raised for the local hospice at my wife's funeral was stolen I'd be furious - this is not a victimless crime, the victims are those who would have benefited from the donations.

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If the cheques weren't sent on how did she cash them. Were they made out to her, I don't understand.
Anyway, she should be made to work to pay back the money, if she goes to jail she'll be paid for by the State and probably not pay it back.
If I see her in Cheddar, I may say something unpolite!

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There really are some low people about these days, but things like her employment and family can be taken into account when sentancing, I know the local court here allowed a man who ran his own business to go to prison just weekends so he could carry on his business as he employed thirty five people.