article_snippet.sent: District Judge Stephen Nicholls sentenced District Judge Stephen Nicholls to three months in prison, but suspended the sentence for 12 months as District Judge Stephen Nicholls pleaded guilty and had repaid the money.
article_snippet.sent: This does cross the custody threshold and I will impose a sentence of 12 weeks' custody suspended for 12 months.'
article_snippet.sent: The Taxpayers' Alliance said Day's sentence would do little to discourage others from committing benefit fraud.
article_snippet.sent: With finances so tight, we must crack down on those who seek to game the system for those who seek to game the system for their own advantage and minimise the amount of taxpayers' cash swindled by fraudsters own advantage and minimise the amount of taxpayers' cash swindled by fraudsters. '
article_snippet.sent: Taxpayers will wonder whether punishments like this - or the lack thereof - do enough to discourage others from attempting the same crime.'