the judges have gone terpe.
a full-time father because the mother can't look after them because she is working

his excuse it's difficult being a single parent, well i'm sure he's getting tax creds, housing benefit and maybe even the mother pays something as she's too busy working , 5 kids thats a lot of tax creds and child benefit !

At the Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Maddison said: "It is important that criminals should not think that children can provide some sort of licence to commit criminal offences with impunity.

"All of that said, however, we have to be aware of the highly unsatisfactory and difficult situation faced by the children and those now doing their best to look after them."

He has now been given eight months in prison, suspended for two years, plus 12 months supervision from the Probation Service and a three-month curfew.

A spokesman for campaigning human rights group Justice said: "The courts have to balance the seriousness of an offence with the rights of innocent children who may end up in care or in poverty because of a parent's imprisonment."

maybe the courts should consider the victims, and most of the time they are innocent victims..