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Stuart Hall's sentence is unduly lenient ? the judge got it wrong

PUBLISHED June 18, 2013
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It's a rare day when Harriet Harman and the Daily Mail agree. But in their reaction to the sentencing of Stuart Hall to 15 months in jail for multiple counts of child sexual abuse, they are united. Both believe the punishment ? which will see Hall's time in prison automatically reduced to seven and a half months ? is "unduly lenient." And they're both right.

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