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Only two people have alluded to the fact that this young lady most likely,has a mental health problem. Stop slating the Judge and focus on the cause of her behaviour. She may not be as bad as you think,simply mad! To use an outdated term.

- Gordon ,Mental Health Worker/Psychologist, Barbados

This is bizarre - she has committed a number of crimes already. Threatening someone with a knife, following people, harrassing people....these are crimes still aren't they??????

- Susie Blake, London

Complete nutter and leave our lovely Billie alone and bring her back on Dr Who!

- Sonny, UK

neil and jane , both from london .
2 hand wringing apologists .

- Clive, london

I believe Judge John Hand should be sacked. But this is Nu Labour's crime policy: Soft on crime, soft on criminals, soft on the causes of crime - TOUGH on the victims of crime, and to make it worse, we have a gutless media, press, opposition and judiciary who are happy to carry such policies through. With Judges like this, is it little wonder Britain is heading for total social anarchy? The only hope we have is that Newham council evict this evil woman.

- Joannie, Newham, London

'We accept that mistakes have been made, we have reviewed our policies (under nu labour) and lessons have been learnt to avoid future cases such as this...... will be in the news when this ill woman carries out her wishes. God help us all!

- Tallulah, London

England was once seen as a role model for other societies, today, England is seen as the land where one can do whatever one feels like and walk away; it really doesn't matter whether is a child, a mother, a disable or an old person. Are the law officials in a crazy competition towards the most imcompetent personality of the year?

- Alice, London

"Is this Judge for real? Course not he is like the MP's - totally out of touch with the real world. "

I've always found comments like this more than a little bizarre when you consider what judges hear on a daily basis in their courtrooms - in extreme, unexpurgated detail, and repeatedly from multiple points of view.

Far from being "totally out of touch with the real world", it seems to me that they get rather more exposure to it than most, especially if they specialise in trying serious crimes.

- Michael, London

Leave your bin lid up an inch and get a large fine and criminal record. Threaten a woman and child with a knife, and go on your way! How did the country ever get to this reversed state?

- Stephen, London

Of course none of you know whether she had actually ALREADY spent time in prison on remand prior to being sentenced, do you?

- Jane, London

Actually Neil, you can't, Minority Report is just a film okay? Time to quit drinking and get a job

- Piqued, london

"Move her next door to the judge"!! Best idea!!

- Mario, Limassol Cyprus

Now if she had been caught shoplifting..........

- Patrick, Dalston

Absolute disgarce this stalker should have been put away for a long time. lets hope she get some of her own 'medicine' when the police watch her closely very closely.

- Dhan Raj, Basildon

Judge John Hand QC, I have given up hope. We are doomed.

- Ben Farrell, London

Neil: she HAS committed a crime - and been convicted of it too. Under the terms of the 1997 Protection from Harassment Act every malicious incident cited in this report was an a crime committed.

She even has a suspended sentence from previously being convicted of a similar crime: the idea of a suspended sentence is to allow someone convicted of a crime to prove they can correct the own behaviour without imprisonment and if they don't that sentence can then be added to the next one they incur - except that because there aren't enough prison places and the Judge percieved this crime to be soft, he didn't!

- Roz, France

it was only yesterday the 16 year old was imprisoned having raped a child days after not being given a custodial sentence for raping another child.

Our judicial system is a disgrace and those who run it are not fit for public office. They are supposed to separate from the politicians yet seem to be having a competition for who is the most self-serving and incompetent. Judge Hand is a disgrace to his profession and this nation. Perhaps he will do the honourable thing and resign.

- Tony, London

actually neil, you can.

you can certainly be sectioned under the mental health act. I'd be very happy to pay the wages of Nurse Ratchet to look after her, as a private patient.

- Scotty, London

Is this Judge for real? Course not he is like the MP's - totally out of touch with the real world. Disrobe him of his office and send him out to do some community service.

- Peter, Vienna, Austria

@ Neil, London, London UK

She has repeatedly committed crimes matey. Threatening a child with a knife is reason enough to lock her away.

- Frank, Home Counties, England.

I don't know Neil, I think you'll find if you threaten to kill Gordon Brown or your local police chief, they'll lock you up pretty quickly whether or not you go through with it. Of course when it's ordinary plebs, they don't care as much.

- Kevin T, Beckenham, Kent

Harrasment and threatening behaviour should be dealt with swift no nosense action. This woman should have an electronic tag on her with a curfew only allowing her to and from work until she learns to leave these people alone. Any further harrassment should be dealt with mandatory jail and treatment.

- Porky Pies, Land of Make Believe, London

She is vile, but you can't lock someone up "just in case" they commit a crime.

- Neil, London, London UK

Unbelieveable you can be sent to prison for speeding in a car or motorbike but threaten to kill someone and terrorise you neighbours then you can walk free. The law is this counrty has gone completely mad, was it not said that if this is justice I am a banana!!!

- Disgusted, A little provincial are of Europe called England

If this was man he would be locked up, because it's a woman and woman on women and child violence isn't taken so seriously when it should be. I'm disgusted by the laws in this country that are so light on violence, stalking etc.

- Ben S, London

Section her...of course not!!! under "Nu Labour" and their sentencing guideline rules!!!...that would be against her Human Rights...never mind the peoples Human Rights this scum-bag has been tormenting!!! The victims don't seem to have any under this Government!!!

- Mark, Walworth

How is it that a British Legion Poppy Collector is not allowed to shake their collection tin anymore in case they intimidate people, yet this woman can go about threatening people?

- Janet, London, UK

Threats to kill can carry a maximum of life imprisonment and used to be taken very seriously. This seems to illustrate a general breakdown in law and order and sends a signal that you can do what you like.

- Alan J, London

If she kills someone, the agencies concerned with letting her off all these times will no doubt say: "Lessons have been learned."

- Newsgatherer, Oxford, UK

Do we have to wait until she kills, before something is done.??

- Janicebyrne, sussex

"Instead Judge John Hand QC freed her and extended a community supervision order for a further year".

Time the 'Judges' realised that one reason we have no faith in the judicial system any more is because of judgements like this.

- Mowdiwarp, Huddersfield, West Yorks

honestly, you couldn't make it up.

she should be locked up with the other lowlife's and dregs of humanity.

- Scotty, London

How is she allowed to go free? She was threatening a child with a knife! Clearly the woman has mental health issues and should be under controlled care until she is fit to be back in society.

- S-M Hearmon, London, UK

Do we send people like this to prison. No in this country we wait till she kills someone then hold our hands up and say this should never happen.Its time Judges were held to account for bad decisions.

- David Smith, london

Aggression comes in two forms: overt and covert. Most people only acknowledge overt - actual physical assault. But anyone who has been severely bullied will know that the covert is far more pernicious, not least of all because most people don't take it seriously (unless it is suddenly turned on them) and it deliberately plays on the victim's imagination to provide unending fear. Modern society - especially in the UK - is riddled with daily acts of covert aggression: the mother who was rudely told to leave the bus the other day because there was no room for her push-chair, for example, or the Tube worker who called an elderly man who was shut in a train door 'a little girl' for complaining. This woman is taking the same aggression but to slightly further extremes: given the increase in violent, overt aggression in London it must be terrifying to live near her. Psychobabble has led us all to believe that perpetrators of aggression have perhaps got some problem for which we should make allowances - their childhood, depression, whatever - it makes little difference. In actual fact, aggressive people are just aggressive because they like it - it gives them power over someone else; their only aim to get some more power next time. The Judge has sent a very clear signal to this woman: her crime isn't that serious - and he has thus pushed out the bounderies of acceptability for antisocial behaviour just that little bit further once again.

- Roz, France

So this Stalker will have to actually kill someone or seriously injure them before being locked up?

What planet do judges come from?

- Julian, London

and you wonder why we are in the state we are!!!!!!!!

thanks Labour for all you have done.........

- Jonny, London

This is the Nu Labor society we live in. Anything goes and lawabiding citizens suffer.

- Georgie, Islington, London

Labour's Justice system in 2009, let the vermin go free.

Obviously this will have to end in a murder before some senile Judge gets the message. The sentence then will only be community service of course.

Labour = tough for the victims of crime.

- Frank, Home Counties, England.

Unbelievable!

How long will the judiciary allow this farce to continue? Its obvious this woman is a bit cuckoo and needs to be locked up for the security of the general public. Some mental health treatment would probably help too?

Why is this woman being let off the hook time and time again?

- Neilhead, Cross of Clay

I THOUGHT HATE CRIMES WERE PUNISHABLE WITH HARSH SENTENCING IN THE UK NOW.

tough on crime ,tough on the causes of crime NOT!!!!.

why the hell is this woman allowed to roam the streets , especially after threatening children.

what the hell is going on .

MR PASTRY

- Mr Pastry, london

Juliette Peters should be moved next door to the judge today.

- Roger, Devon

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