This brave woman deserves a medal

[OwlHoot]

She should be applauded for her actions. But she'll probably be beaten up by her other sons.

Linky

W H Smith

(Bagpuss, is that better?)

[shelby68]

Well as ever it never gets correctly reported, she shopped her sons after another family member told her if she didn't do it they would, granted she took responsibility for doing it but you've got to ask would she have done it without that.

She has now incidentally been disowned by her family, if you ask me she’s better off without them.

[Cyberman]

What a wonderful woman!! She did exactly the right thing.

As usual though, the sentencing is weak...... two years for blinding and almost killing a man!!

They will only serve a year at most and then come out and no doubt take revenge on their brave mother. Then they will get life, and will serve about 6 years, which is the average for murder, thanks to Tony Blair's 'tough on crime policies'. Prior to his stupid legislation which halved many sentences, the average served was 12 years.

Bring on a right wing government, which implements some real deterrent sentencing!!

[OwlHoot]

Hopefully with a rope, though the wimps in Euroland will put the kybosh on that...

HMSO

Couldn't agree more

[BrilloPad]

Hopefully with a rope, though the wimps in Euroland will put the kybosh on that...

Or even better, Ole Sparky on live TV... even better than big brother.

Maybe the losers on big brother could be electrocuted? Or better still the viewers...

[OwlHoot]

Or better still the viewers...

Ryman

If only

[NickFitz]

And I'm sure she's been amply rewarded by GMTV and the newspapers.

I'm sorry, but am I to understand that you think that every person whose actions are reported by the various media outlets receives payment?

Every newspaper and broadcaster would be bankrupt in a week if that was the case.

If she was a member of Girls Aloud then she might have had a sufficiently savvy PR to get her a few bob - this is just an ordinary person who has done the right thing, and all she's likely to get out of it is a few chavs throwing petrol bombs at her house. Yet, knowing this, she still did the right thing. As the story already exists in the public domain, nobody will pay her a penny.

And frankly, if she does make a few bob out of it (and stories like this are paid for with maybe a couple of hundred quid, not thousands), it's a small reward for the pain a mother must feel at sending her own children to jail.

Cynicism is more appropriately directed at politicians and celebrities than at decent people who probably feel ashamed that their family's dirty linen is being aired in public. I don't think she regards the jailing of her children as an opportunity to make a few bob.