The length of his sentence… I just don’t know. I don’t know the ins and outs of the law, so I can’t comment on whether the length of the sentence is appropriate or not. I’m ok with the fact that he was jailed though. Eighteen is old enough to recognise an idiotic idea, no matter how emotionally charged you might be.

The sorry thing is though, his punishment is probably going to go far beyond being released from jail. If he manages to go to university, he’s probably going to have a harder time finding graduate jobs than most. The first thing that an employer does is to google potential candidates.