No prison for rapists proves our sentencing guidelines are unfit for purpose

We have become so used to outrage of crime going unpunished that there is a risk that the public – and politicians – simply become deadened by the repetition. Week after week we see judges letting violent criminals off without a custodial sentence, sentences suspended, juries failing to convict in what should be open-and-shut cases, and foreign national offenders somehow allowed to stay in the country.