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Letter: Surcharge tax
Antony Stringfellow Cambridge Evening News
Thursday 12 Apr 2007 RE your article "Magistrates brand new fine surcharge immoral", (April 10). I am writing in support of a decision by magistrate Alan Williams not to apply a £15 victim surcharge to a 19-year-old man, who pleaded guilty to possessing a small amount of cannabis. Surely, common sense alone dictates that for such a surcharge to apply there has to be at least one victim? Where is the victim in this case (besides the man charged with this offence)? I suggest that this surcharge is no more than a tax on those who fall foul of the law. If it is any more than that, then I for one would be interested in hearing the explanation. Antony Stringfellow Great Corby Carlisle http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/
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