Everyone lives off someone else, whichever way you like to interpret it, it's a fact of life.

In Nicholas Hoogstraten's own words: "To not to come to terms with this as a fact, you must be an idiot."

It seems to me Nick, as the person being portrayed to the public (ie lifestyle and acts of success), has likewise been misinterpreted as someone who everybody just loves to hate.

The judgement and sentencing of Nick seems to portray a vendetta - payback time for a person you were only made to believe to be such a frightful person.

He himself would also have promoted those beliefs and enjoyed his input.

You do not know Nick.

As we make the laws and elect judges to pass judgement, it's easy to accept their conclusion.

But do we ever pass judgement on our leaders in a state of war?

No, we accept straight away we are protecting our own, together with horrific loss of life and misery, and we go to great lengths to pass judgement and impose penalties on our opponents' leaders.

Just maybe, Nick has done justice a favour.

With this in mind and much more, I would most certainly question the severity regarding Nick. It seems they have judged the man's financial empire as being somewhat ill-gotten.

The Inland Revenue would possibly be in favour of keeping a product active.

I'm not in full favour of our tax laws either.

-Brian Baker, Plumpton Green