@forumhostpb wrote:
He was jailed for not paying (or refusing to continue paying) the fines imposed on him.
BUT if you do the math, it isn’t such a bad deal really. He had to pay a total of £10,136. Being given 6 months in jail actually means a time seved of around 3 months. When he comes out, he will have in essence settled his debt to society by virtue of serving his sentence.
£10,136 expunged in 3 months is the equivalent of £40,544 nett of income tax & NI which grosses up to somewhere around £50,000 gross (i.e. before Tax & NI)…… a pretty good income for a pub landlord.
and what about the cost to the taxpayer for his upkeep whilst he is in prison taking up a space that could be used for a real criminal?