Sorry to interfere with the frothing,but people get suspended sentences all the time for offences like this,regardless of background.

ie, Cardiff 2015:

"A supermarket employee stabbed his partner in the arm “in a fit of jealousy” because she talked to another man, a court has heard.

Tesco worker Martin Rees pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding and was given a suspended sentence after Cardiff Crown Court heard it was his first offence."

Coventry 2016:

"A customer tried to stab another man in the back in Nando's in Coventry city centre after a row broke out over a piece of garlic bread.

Fortunately, Mohammed Miah’s victim was wearing a thick coat and escaped being injured, a judge has heard.

Miah, 21, of Durbar Avenue, Foleshill, pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to attempting to wound victim Sunny Sidhu with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm.

Miah was sentenced to 15 months in prison suspended for two years"

Leeds 2016:

"A teenager has been given a suspended sentence for stabbing another youth two years ago in Almondbury.

Leeds Crown Court heard Roden Bedford was only 17 when he went to a mini market in Southfield Road with his uncle David Lockwood on March 8, 2014.

While they were there his uncle became involved in a verbal confrontation with a 15-year-old youth and they began to fight."

I'm not sure we should be picking our 'future life savers' from the ranks of the emotionally unstable no matter how bright.....there are other more 'reliable for others' roads for her to travel down.

She is Young and made a very silly mistake, are you saying that mistakes made when we are young should ruin your chances of future success ? I think Ian Wright might Disagree, or indeed Anthony Joshua. The fact is this is a pure slice of fried headline grabbing gold for those of a certain persuasion, and actually if you look into it, prison is really seen as a last resort in waaaaaayy more cases than your giving the impression of.

There are loads of cases of dangerous driving where the victim has actually been killed, and the driver has walked, one case was the mother who was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving, but spared jail "because it would be a violation of her human rights" There was also the guy last year who ran down a couple killing them, who was finally jailed but had about 30 previous convictions for car related offences. A quick search of the internet will show this is nothing like the inequality scandal it is being out to be. Pure headline grabbing

I have sympathy for your last sentence.

Indeed

If this kind of thinking was applied across all of society I could perhaps not be annoyed as much....but as the public discourse is dominated by claims of the need for 'equality' this kind of hypocrisy needs to be highlighted.

Equality is a very easy card to play, much like racism, however as I said a quick search of the internet will show this terrible injustice is actually common place across all walks of life, Jail really seems to be the last resort for all but the most serious of crimes.

Edited by Stirlingsays (26 Sep 2017 11.28am)

I'm not sure we should be picking our 'future life savers' from the ranks of the emotionally unstable no matter how bright.....there are other more 'reliable for others' roads for her to travel down.

I guess it's just as well it was a bread knife - I doubt much damage was inflicted.