This is disgusting, i've just moved out of Rochdale after living there all my life because of the trouble teenagers were causing in the area, which was supposedly a 'nice & quiet' part of Rochdale, ending with an armed robbery in the shop across the road from my house and a stabbing just up the road! All done by under 20's!!

   More for beating someone and less for fraud is a joke.

The Darwins six years , a peodophile gang called the wonderland didn't get that between them for abusing babies. Seven British men, who peddled child pornography on the internet, were jailed for between 12 and 30 months each on Tuesday. (BBC)

So basically you can ruin kids lives, kick someone half to death, but God forbid you steal money.

Wake up call.!!! I don't give two hoots about an insurance company being robbed i am more interested in my life being protected and innocent children.Thank You Nu labour...

   With Evidence like that they get a lenient sentence, Despicable, these should have got charged with G B H with intent and robbery just a disgrace !!! the British justice system has gone down the drain.

   This is discusting. they are a pack on animals and deserve to be locked up for alot longer. awful people who live in our society. the 17 year old should be named and shamed...he took part aswell whether he is 17 or not if he is good enough to do this crime he is good enough 2 me named.discusting!

   What these thugs have done to the victim is extremely shocking. Somebody should do the same to them. And the 17 year old thug should be named and shamed...why is he being protected? The justice system is ridiculous in this country!!!

   Crimes like this will continue, and will only get worse, because there is no discipline today, Either at home,at schools, or even courts. Scum like this are just laughing at everybody!! And so it will go on!!!!!!

   i am ashamed to say i know 2 of that gang members an i am also ashamed 2 say my brother wen out with gemma but wot they did 2 that man was just a sstep 2 far the teenagers of rochdale are just getting worse you put them in prison an wen they get out they think crime they get a good beetin they can take on the world i really think they should be put in a lock up an wen they evan think about

   I am sick to death of seeing and reading about these vicious gang attacks on innocent people. When is this Government and the judicial system going to get some backbone and act on this sickening culture. Its time we came down hard crime and the criminals who inflict violence (even those of a young age who are also capable of committing vicious crimes). Criminals don't suffer because those in authority are afraid of not being P.C. or afraid of breaching their Human Rights, well what about the rights of the victims and their families.

   18 months for the PACK LEADER is a joke 9 months on each charge to run concurent,half that and put a tag on her and she'll be out by weekend give her something to think about,like the birch

   they should put all of them in stocks outside the town hall every day for a month.

Then let the public let them know exactly how we feel about scum like them.

THAT may make them think before they do anything like this again.

   Another story that underlines our lack of Justice...

If people want to behave like animals, then they should be treated like animals.

What punishment would a dog get for savaging someone like this?

4 years... Just enough time to do their NVQ in GBH and Hotwiring, then out onto the social and back into circulation.

And people wonder why the town is down the pan...

   John and Anne Darwin nicked cash from an insurance company and get six years, no harm to society , they should have been given community sentances and made to pay the money back.

These four kick a man half to death and get sentances that ammounts a slap on the wrist.

Shows you that money is more important than lives.

   It's a fact that members of the public can lobby the CPS to appeal the case for a longer sentence,and they would welcome this I'm sure. If there was a a case that merits an extended sentence then this is it!

   It's a wonder that poor man wasn't killed. Those thugs should have been locked up for at least twenty years each. Absolutely sickening.

   This man could have died. The sentences dealt out to these thugs are way too lenient.