I am really saddened by this story, Joanne Frail has been given an 8 month prison/jail sentence for contacting a defendant on Facebook. Now, I would say fair enough if she was up to no good, but she was showing a bit of sympathy for the lady defendant and was being naive.
What is really upsetting is the fact that Joanne is a hard working mother and has helped the country out by doing Jury service, ok she has cost us about £6million reportedly by messing up the trial, but these things happen if you don't have a trained full time Jury and the Judge thinks that sending her to prison will help? I read articles on how serial drug addicted burglars do not get returned to prison as it is at no benefit to them and they do not pose a threat to the public (you tell that to the innocent people who's lives they ruin), so why now has the judge been so harsh on a nice lady?
I just wish that there was some consistency with our judicial system. I am sick of seeing murderers, rapists and perverts getting short sentencing and people who do one bad thing like not pay there council tax, go to prison for longer. I do not feel that we as a nation are being treated fairly or listened too, we need a change and lets start by getting this poor woman freed.
Please start a Twitter Trend to get her out ##GetJoanneFraillReleased
Thanks guys
Full Story is here http://t.co/eSGHznN
