WITH reference to the drug dealer to pay back £10,000 he made from his criminal activities (LT, February 12), we are reassured by Sandra Robinson (financial investigator for Lancashire Constabulary) that crime does not pay.
I disagree. If he has made £100,000 from his activities, and has only to repay £10,000, what has happened to the other £90,000?
Of his 12 years and 9 months sentence, he will probably be back on the streets in about five years.
Set this against the £90,000 he has not had to repay, and he will have gained about £18,000 for each year spent in prison. Not a bad little earner.
S J Barker, Elizabeth Street, Accrington.
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