Proportionate Sentence?

ChillDoubt | 14:32 Thu 13th Dec 2012 | News

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http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20444436

Wouldn't community service have been a better idea than added expense to the taxpayer?
And I'm frankly amazed that Rothko's paintings sell for such an amount, but then what some deem odd or ordinary others deem 'art'.

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EcclesCake

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Or even more cynically, the higher the value of the painting the more the gallery would pay for insurance at the opening of the exhibition. The exhibition proves successful and much interest is expressed in Rothko's work, consequently the value increases...... Then a miscreant comes along and addshis own form of 'art' to Rothko's. And the value is...

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FredPuli43

Rothko died in 1970, so no chance of a repaint or a replacement. Don't think that that makes a lot of difference. He'd probably hold out for several million just to pick up a brush!
Sentence seems right though. The defendant may have been pleased at being a martyr to his art .

rojash

"It seems to me that one pretentious berk has spoiled the work of another pretentious berk."

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Goonermatt

http://metro.co.uk/2012/12/13/murderer-wanted-justin-bieber-strangled-and-castrated-3316508/

"It is thought that the informant was Martin, who is serving a 978-year sentence for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl."

I think THAT is what you call a proportionate sentence.

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