article_snippet.sent: Christopher Starrs, 50, was allowed to go free from court with just a suspended jail sentence in January after admitting his part in a two-and-a-half year con against his employer BT.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Your client was fortunate to not go straight to prison.
article_snippet.sent: ‘No one appears to have noticed that the sentencing imposed on Christopher Starrs was unlawful.
article_snippet.sent: Wheelchair-bound Starrs, 50, was a manager with BT who admitted defrauding the company of £28,000 over two years .
article_snippet.sent: The Recorder, who is the head of 4 Bream Buildings chambers and took the Silk in 2006, gave Christopher Starrs a 16-month jail sentence suspended for two years and ordered to pay a fine, and allowed the confiscation proceeds to continue.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutor John Ojakovoh said Christopher Starrs offered a ‘blank cheque’ at sentencing and has already paid back the £28,000 Prosecutor John Ojakovoh stole.
article_snippet.sent: Starrs, of Northolt, Middlesex, who had worked at BT since 1988, was excused from sitting in the dock because he is in a wheelchair.
highlights_snippet.sent: Christopher Starrs was spared jail in an 'act of mercy' by judge in January .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: But Christopher Starrs Christopher Starrs should thank Christopher Starrs lucky stars as sentence allowed to stand .