Ms Deirdre Malone:

Then it was my misunderstanding.

The third point related to sentencing. I agree entirely with my colleague. When the public is getting information about particular sentences it is really the most lenient and the heaviest sentences which are reported. We know about an interesting project in the United Kingdom. Judges took the decision to publish all the facts of particular crimes for the public. Then they asked the public what sentences the public believed would be appropriate in given cases in the light of the public knowing all the facts of the cases. The overwhelming response was that the public agreed with the sentences in question or would have opted for more lenient sentences. It would be very interesting to do something similar in this country.