The i newspaper reports today:
A man has been warned he faces jail after faking a membership card for Lord's Cricket Ground which gave him access to the best seats. [The offender] was told by district judge Angus Hamilton at Hendon Magistrates' Court that his crime warranted a custodial penalty.
If ever there was a case for community service rather than incarceration, this was it. Cleaning the Lord's toilets for a fortnight, without a chance to view the cricket, would seem to be an appropriate punishment.
However, one does wonder if faking a pass to a box at the Emirates Stadium would have attracted the same opprobrium from this particular district judge.
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