Dave,

I didn't know you lived in such a perfect world - you are applying current day concepts and attitudes to historical events - an exercise as pointless as saying, "If my Aunt had balls, he'd be my Uncle."

Of course there are real examples of injustice, this prat getting three months for something he pleaded guilty to isn't one of them.

Oh! before I forget, Guest 21.02.03; 03:46 - Brilliant, thought that was extremely funny - you brightened up the start of the day, and for that many thanks.

Didn't the bridge crossing thing have something to do with secondary picketting?

The government and vested interest thing works for them in exactly the same way as it does for everybody else - they get away with it only up until they get caught:

"I'm a poor man as honest as they come
I never was a thief until they caught me"
(Jez Lowe - Durham Jail)

Custodial sentences for industrial pollution and criminal negligence relating to HSE laws are relatively new. I, personally, do not know of any custodial sentence handed down for the former (environmental pollution), but with regard to the latter yes I do know of such cases (relating to offshore diving accidents).

My name, by the way, is Bill.

Yours in an equally cordial manner.

Hope you enjoy the week-end,

Bill.