This would under normal circumstances be headline news

Fallingstar

The wife sounds as bad, imho she should be charged with aiding a paedophile. Not sure if this is already the case but if not it should be.
What a ghastly couple.

Most definitely. Awful, evil woman.

The wife's sister was also married to a convicted pedophile.

I have no idea what it is all about because for about the upteenthem time sonone has posted an article in such a small font, which cannot be enarged, that no-one who uses glasses can read i t.

Please will you all either post links to a site where we can read what it is all about, or enlarge things before posting them?

I have made this request numerous times before no w, but no-one takes a blind bit of notice.

It is really unpleasant for those of us who do not see perfectly.

AuntieE All you have to do is enlarge the screen and you can read it perfectly well. Control + That's what it is on my Macbook Air laptop.

I'm sick of all this crap "not fit to stand trial"! Make her! Who cares if she has "mental problems". They both must have had to commit such vile crimes in the first place. What about the mental problems of the victims after they inflicted their vile acts on them?! Like when you read so and so refused to attend court! Drag them there! Add to their sentence for refusing to attend!

AuntieE I'm reading on my phone.
If I click on the picture it brings up the article.
If I hold my finger and thumb together on the picture, then slide them slowly apart, it enlarges it.
Does that help at all?

AuntieE you can also do a screenshot and then enlarge it

It isn’t a link , it’s. a photo so goes nowhere

Our world seems to be sliding into a rotten, stinking cesspit of abuse of all forms, the very worst kind going grieviously unpunished and almost ignored.

Thank God this vile man has been convicted and hopefully faces a long, long time to reflect on his disgusting behaviour but so, so many don't.

The rape of children, obscene to even write, is off the scale, women killed in their thousands by partners, vulnerable people having their houses, their lives destroyed by drug gangs, evidence of all this vile abuse presented to authorities and what....? Wrists slapped, suspended sentences doled out, prison time cut so short why bother jailing them in the first place.

What the actual f*ck is going on?

I believe in the inherent goodness of people but what do we do in the face of such a tsunami of depravity?

Nanee, is it your view that these activities are new, and were not happening throughout history?
If you read my first post, you will see reference to an aged clergyman who had been abusing boys for many years.
The change is that, now, victims are emboldened to speak, the law is confident to prosecute, juries and judges happy to sentence.
Like domestic violence, which we have dealt with it openly in my lifetime. It was rarely investigated in my childhood.

Chocolatelovinggran

Nanee, is it your view that these activities are new, and were not happening throughout history?
If you read my first post, you will see reference to an aged clergyman who had been abusing boys for many years.
The change is that, now, victims are emboldened to speak, the law is confident to prosecute, juries and judges happy to sentence.
Like domestic violence, which we have dealt with it openly in my lifetime. It was rarely investigated in my childhood.

I agree with you. The number of cases being brought to court which are historic shows that abuse in all its forms has been going on for a long time.

No, Chocolatelovinggran, it is not my view that these activities are something new, they are tragically as old as time, but there is still not enough being done to bring justice for those emboldened to speak.

According to date from Rape Crisis England less than 1...yes, ONE...percent of rapes committed result in a conviction. That, to me, is an astounding figure and testimony to our complete failure to get a grip of these most shocking of crimes.

It's a very good thing that historical sexual violence is being addressed and perpetrators punished but it's simply not enough.

Where is the outrage and immediate promise of action over the rape grooming gangs horror just as an example? Allegedly there are over two hundred and fifty thousand children - a figure as startling in it's magnitude as the 1% conviction rate is in it's shocking minimality - who's lives have been devastated by systemic rape and abuse, where is the rush to ensure justice for them? There's statements and forensics and colossal amounts of evidence but for what?

And that's just for that particular set of horrors, it's not even touching the side of the hellish level of domestic assaults never mind rape by strangers.

We're living in cloud cuckoo land if we think our present justice system is fit for purpose.

Will Donaldson’s wife be considered fit to be sentenced?