""But as to levels of condemnation of rape, there is one threshold and then a gradation. Every rape is a rape and deserves to be condemned and punished as one. Then there may be degrees of aggravation, the use of additional violence, the addition of categories of forced acts, the journeys into other avenues of sexual behaviour (DPP -v- Bourne)""

Agreed Richard, as long as it is made clear that the distinction is not "bad, worse, and worst", but "Worst, Wost doubled, and worst redoubled".

Don T.