AS GRANDPARENTS of Richard Sale (‘Why Me?’, OxfordMail, October 31), we would like to express our view that the combined time and three-year ban he received, along with photographs published – where other faces were blurred – appears too harsh.
What he did was foolish, but surely did not deserve such a sentence.
We feel, as Richard himself does, that ‘being honest’ did not do him any favours and is unlikely to encourage others to do the same in future.
Perhaps there really are occasions when the law is an ass.
In conclusion, we would like to say that Richard is an amiable, hard-working young man and appears to have been made a scapegoat on this occasion.
DAVID & MARGARET PRIESTLEY, Bath Street, St Clement’s, Oxford
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