{"id":21509,"date":"2017-08-12T01:39:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T00:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21509"},"modified":"2023-01-28T01:53:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T01:53:59","slug":"its-a-womans-world-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21509","title":{"rendered":"It&rsquo;s a Woman&rsquo;s World: #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just saw <a title=\"Gambling addict accountant who stole \u00a3350,000 walks free after judge says she's not made of the 'stuff' for prison\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/crime\/gambling-addict-accountant-who-stole-350000-walks-free-after-judge-says-shes-not-made-of-the-stuff-a3609281.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this report from the Evening Standard<\/a>. Imagine what would happen if a 37-year old man did this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>had a gambling addiction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>was an accountant for a tech company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>created over 400 fake invoices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>stole \u00a3350,000 in one year<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>spent \u00a3250,000 of it playing online poker<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>concealed details to avoid being caught<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Now imagine what would happen if the only altered detail was that it was a 37-year old black woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unbelievably, Natalie Saul, the thief in question, was given a two-year suspended sentence, 250 hours unpaid work, and a fine of \u00a3360 (and I haven\u2019t missed any 0s off that). She was defended by a woman, Lucie Daniels, whose pathetic mitigating plea included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>This offending is so out of character, she has worked hard and paid her taxes and been a responsible citizen\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The judge, Catherine Newman \u2013 yes, that\u2019s right: a woman \u2013 said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It has caused considerable harm to your employer which could ill afford to lose such a substantial sum, but thankfully survived. Your grandmother\u2019s death rocked the stability of your hitherto good citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You had a steady partner who had no idea of your gambling addiction and stands by you. I\u2019m prepared to take the wholly exceptional course of reducing your sentence and suspend it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Saul was only caught when she went on maternity leave (sigh) and the new accountant uncovered the fraud. Incidentally, it isn\u2019t made clear what happened to the other \u00a3100,000 she ripped off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newman also said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I\u2019m taking a considerable risk that the Crown will think it lenient and appeal, but it\u2019s a risk I\u2019m willing to take.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s hope the Crown agrees, does appeal, and also kicks Newman out for gross incompetence (not to mention what appears to be overt discrimination). If Saul had been a man, they\u2019d be arguing the upper sentencing limit wasn\u2019t enough, but Newman seems to think that even the lower limit isn\u2019t low enough for a woman. Thank God for equality, eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4532794719633406\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw this report from the Evening Standard. Imagine what would happen if a 37-year old man did this: Now imagine what would happen if the only altered detail was that it was a 37-year old black woman. Unbelievably, Natalie Saul, the thief in question, was given a two-year suspended sentence, 250 hours unpaid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}