Rather than attacking the criminal justice system for the offender's non-custodial sentence, Mrs Kent is pleased he was not jailed.

BBC: A victim of crime

The report also found almost a fifth of defendants held on remand were acquitted, and nearly a quarter were handed a non-custodial sentence.

BBC: Prison cell at Wormwood Scrubs

Under the proposed legislation, convictions resulting in a non-custodial sentence will be filtered from record checks after 11 years for adults and five and a half years for young offenders.

BBC: Criminal record checks to be relaxed

The 27-year-old is currently serving an 18-month sentence imposed by the non-jury court in March.

BBC: Man jailed for having Crossmaglen PSNI station bomb

Jonathan Gold, 48, of Coleshill, who pleaded guilty to failing to ensure the safety of a non-employee, was given a suspended seven-month sentence.

BBC: Mark Handford

Recognising the value of the free time that most prisoners have in prison, many correctional institutions offer skills and vocational training as well as formal and non-formal education programmes as complimentary parts of a sentence.

UNESCO: M��nster Prison Library

Already approaching his mid-70s, Mr Erbakan could end up behind bars now that an appeals court has upheld the prison sentence imposed on him last year for a speech mild to most non-Turkish ears he made in the largely Kurdish province of Bingol.

ECONOMIST: Turkey