'The Sun' let off lightly

[Shelsman]

For anyone following the news, I think 'The Sun' being let off with only a €100,000 fine for the collapse of a (triple) murder case is very lenient. What about

1. The course of justice
2. The family of the victim
3. Letting ( suspect/possible ) murderers walk the streets

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0208/sun.html

Surely there should be a harsher punishment ( e.g. prison sentence ), this is surely the obstruction of justice at it's worst? If someone interefered with the case in some other way they would be sent to jail.

[Bald Student]

I agree, there seems to be no punishment of the paper. They were only made to pay for the cost of the aborted trial i.e. paying for the damage they caused. I think that any fine should be on top of that, not including it.

[patsh]

Ths is just another low in a worrying trend in this country. If we seriously want to stop the advance of the worst of English Tabloid journalism, a stiff custodial sentence for one of the editors of the "Oirish" versions needs to happen fairly soon.

The editor here should have gotten at least a 3 to 6 month setence for contempt. Then others might have thought twice in future.

[SÓC]

I just dont see how people buy these rags?

Remember a few years ago when IRA Volunteers (that is the IRA Volunteers from the War of Indp.now, not some lot of bank robbers/ NI Assembly members) were being reburied they carryed a story about how it the Irish State glorifying terrorist killers in their English edition but their Irish Edition had something along the lines of 'Hero's Reburied'.