Originally Posted by
KelvinD
For me, the biggest disappointment of this out come was that 3 of the culprits had previously received suspended sentences for, I think, offences committed at Heathrow. Those 3 should have gone away as they had proved that they can scoff at suspended sentences. Perhaps their lenient treatment may send a message to all the others that they need not worry about the suspended sentence and may encourage them to chance their arms again in a future breach.
If they had been subject to active suspended sentences, the judge would have had no alternative but to jail them, and leniency wouldn't have entered into it.
They weren't.