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Everyone thinks they'll make a better judge than any judge don't they? You see these nonces getting off with a six quid fine and being given a house next door to a school. And you think 'I wouldn't have done that'.

— John Cooper Clarke BBC Radio 4 - Dr John Cooper Clarke at the BBC (2016)

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