Here:
"A bank manager who admitted carrying out one of Scotland's biggest frauds has been jailed for 10 years.
Donald Mackenzie, 45, pleaded guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh earlier this month to embezzling £21m from The Royal Bank of Scotland.
He accessed the money through the bank's loan system by setting up false accounts in the names of fictitious customers at a branch in Edinburgh."
And here:
"A man who ran a drugs business in Glasgow worth more than £1m has been jailed for nine years.
Colin Robertson, 41, was caught in the city with enough heroin to give each of the city's 15,000 drugs addicts five fixes each.
Along with the 8kg of heroin worth £1.6m was 100,000 diazepam tablets and £2,500 in cash.
Robertson previously admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin, cannabis resin, ecstasy and diazepam."
And here:
"A hit-and-run driver who killed a student at a pelican crossing while speeding has had his jail term doubled.
Abigail Craen, 20, of Liss, Hampshire, died the day after she was run over by Jaswinder Singh, 45, in Pershore Road, Birmingham in October last year.
Singh, of Ward End, Birmingham, was jailed for 18 months after admitting dangerous driving and other offences.
But three Appeal Court judges ruled it was "unduly lenient" before increasing his jail term to three years."
Is each of these sentences appropriate? I don't know. But, to the extent that judges have discretion over sentencing, it cannot be easy to decide.
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