Fraud Sentencing: The Tom Hayes Effect

摘要

For years, fraud offences seemed to be egregiously undersentenced. If you held up a bank-at some personal risk-and got away with £20,000 you might expect to be caught, and on conviction to get an 18-year sentence. If you conned the general public out of £100,000 from the comfort of your armchair you were unlikely to be caught and, if you were, a prosecution was not inevitable, but even in the unlikely event of a conviction you might get two or three years.