Dear Diary,
The scores on the doors are in and the fat lady has sung. Most importantly, The Recorder of Bristol, His Honour Judge Tom Crowther QC has spoken. Brucie has got 12 months. In my view that is merciful. Even though there will have been personal mitigation, the willingness to ensure that someone else went to prison, merely for having the temerity to be on the other side to Brucie, merited more. Perhaps some leniency was exercised because Brucie was already suffering from dress stress. 
Still, what an honour. The first barrister ever to be imprisoned for perverting the justice we are supposed to protect and extend to others. Yet, one must not mock the afflicted. Alas, Brucie fell in love with an image of himself as a magnificent figure of a lawyer, bestriding the legal scene and attracting admiration and envy where ‘ere he set his expensively shod feet. Woefully, Brucie failed to realise is that it is not enough to talk the talk and walk the walk: one must actually do the job. Sad, and unfair as this is, it remains the case that being a barrister is 99% preparation and 1% luck. It seems that Brucie was just too stupid, callous and arrogant to see it. And he a former media person as well: what a surprise.
In short, as Tucker would have it, Brucie is an arsehole. Dear Diary, talking of arseholes Brucie will have an exciting time in prison, meeting new people and discovering new forms of entertainment. As for His Honour Judge Crowther QC; all I can say is didn’t he do well?
A solicitor I used to work for remains in chokey after embezzling about £700,000, £141,000 of it from a lady of 84 in a nursing home. What a clever man. However, I suppose solicitors inside are ten a penny.
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I fear that wishful thinking might be clouding your thoughts. Brucie is showbiz and prison will be no disgrace. Young ladies will soon again be fighting for a place on his casting couch and Brucie’s shows will once again be on Radio 4.
I think you are right in saying the convicted “Brucie” would in an alter ego say “didn’t he do well”
But surely the alter ego of Judge (Leslie?) Crowther would say “Crackerjack”, – or am I showing my age (at least I can still remember my youth)?
How in the name of all that’s holy is 12 months anything but unduly lenient ? Archer got 4 years for far less. Hyman’s actions put the welfare of children at risk, and a man in danger of being imprisoned…
Some of us worked our b*ll*cks off to become lawyers, and this twerp goes and takes a dump all over it… if the CPS don’t refer this one, its conclusive evidence they’ve been smoking the exhibits
I bumped into an old client after his release from a five stretch, served in an open nick. He shared a chalet with five others, whom he described as “3 accountants and a company director”. “What, no solicitors?” I enquired. “Solicitors” he said, “they’re a pound a bag in there.”
Should the smart money be on the possibility that Mr Hyman, bieng in such a woeful state of depression, and wont to think/express apparently suicidal thoughts, will serve out his time in the local Palais Du Mental Health?
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