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I’m obviously wrong on this, but I was under the impression that if you were convicted of something and prisoned then you were only elegible for probation if you showed remorse and could convince the authorities that you would not reoffend. Seems this is not the case.

While driving into work this morning it was announced that Jonathan King had been freed from prison. He gave a statement to the press stating that “I’m totally, absolutely 100% innocent” claimed how he had enjoyed prison and that he wanted everyone to buy his new single. Now I don’t know anything about the case to know if he is innocent or not (3 years ago he obviously couldn’t convince a jury…) but given that he is obviously not admitting that he was wrong and showing remorse I don’t quite see why he has been freed from prison after serving less than half a seven-year term for sex crimes. I guess he will be tagged or something instead.

To quote an engineer we once had here: “I no understandy.”

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