Do you want to fly into a rage whenever a grinning thug gets off after another light sentence from a soft judge – or is rewarded with early release?

There was another one the other day after we learned that Christopher Reid from Blackburn, Aberdeenshire, had been given his get-out-of-jail card.

After serving just 15 per cent of his sentence for a sickening, cowardly attack which almost killed his victim.

So was his victim, who was left in a coma after Reid’s totally unprovoked and random brutality in Aberdeen city centre.

Now Reid has been given an opportunity to “serve his sentence at home” under a Home Detention Curfew (HDC) scheme in Scotland.

“Home sentence” sounds like a contradiction in terms: how can sitting with his feet up in a comfy home environment be a substitute for any meaningful punishment?

The rules allow that the “final portion” of a sentence for short-term offenders is served at home, but how can that be when it’s hardly started?

It seems more like the final straw.

They might as well throw in complimentary air tickets to the Costa del Sol for him as well  – and free lager for a year.

We don’t want Reid to “suffer” any more than necessary – do we? This must have........

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