Madam, – I refer to the sentencing of Frank Dunlop (Home News, May 27th). Although Mr Dunlop was engaged in criminal activity I question the custodial sentence which has been handed down. How will locking up Mr Dunlop benefit the people of the State who have been short- changed by his and his cohorts’ illegal activities. We the taxpayers will have to foot the weekly bill for incarcerating a 62-year-old man who poses no further threat to the public.
Would it not be better for him to serve his time in an accident and emergency department of a hospital on a minimum wage? This would allow him the opportunity to come into contact with the overcrowding and over-stretched services that he and his political friends have created.
It would also be nice to see justice extended to all of the other corrupt officials, politicians and individuals who have abused and squandered our resources, but let them not do time in our prisons at our expense, let them serve time working in the services they have abandoned to charity so that they could further their own insatiable greed for wealth at our expense. – Yours, etc,