[garinda]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

While deploring the crime, I think that the sentencing on this occaision was fair. So a bunch of snooty art queens had the wool pulled over their eyes and got their pride dented - big deal, and about time too!
One of the things that is being overlooked in all the hoo-hah is the extraordinary skill of the 84 year old's son, who actually manufactured the artefacts which left the galleries and art etablishment with egg on their po-faces. This chap has got to be something of a minor national treasure. When did Tracy Emmins create anything as beautiful as the Amarna Princess? I am not surprised that Bolton want to keep hold of it.

This story does have a comic side, but when should old age be an excuse for not giving someone a custodial sentence, that in this case would have been handed down to someone younger?

Like I posted earlier, should an octogenerian child molester be spared prison too?