The Referee Thread

[ChesterDave]

Sentencing remarks in full;

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/R-v-David-Coote.pdf

Nothing too enlightening to be honest other than regarded as low risk for reoffending

[Doc_Piptorious]

Sentencing remarks in full;

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/R-v-David-Coote.pdf

Nothing too enlightening to be honest other than regarded as low risk for reoffending

Wonder if some Joe Nobody admitted using class A drugs and then found guilty of a category A child porn offence, would they just get a slap on the wrist and sent home with a suspended sentence.

[frank the tank]

Yip big time.

VAR should have a look at that decision

[baitman]

Coote gets a suspended sentence despite the judge saying his video was category A level one, supposedly the most serious level.

Members of the same Lodge

[Norbs]

Expected nothing more, that's the society we live in. The weak are easier pickings, there's a reason why the privileged are called that

[baitman]

Expected nothing more, that's the society we live in. The weak are easier pickings, there's a reason why the privileged are called that

Check the judges hard drive