suspended unconditional discharge.
Is that another way of saying hanging?
Boom boom.
The whole situation is akin to being pulled over for a number plate light and getting charged with, and convicted for, death by dangerous driving because the brother of the girl you dumped when you were 9 was the person at the CPS that did your paperwork and whom the judge owed a favour to.
Said judge finds you guilty, because he's told to,.and then gives you a £0 fine and two days in prison offset by the two days you went to court because he knows the whole thing is total horseshit.
Unconditional discharge as a sentence means the prosecution couldn't prove their case, (because they didn't have one), and the defence couldn't prove innocence beyond reasonable doubt, (probably because they didn't have a legitimate case to defend).
No. Unconditional discharge means there was absolutely no point in giving him the sentence he deserved, after being found guilty, because that sentence would never be served. If he hadn't won the election, he'd have got a proper sentence.
"Yeah, but that would have been a political decision......blah, blah"