RE: UK: Hacker Dodges Prison Term

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

> Although worded strangely it READS 

It's just standard UK reporting/legalese.

> like a suspended imposition of sentence, meaning he got 8 
> months time but is on "probation" for two years instead - 
> actually serving the 8 months if he screws up his probation.

Yes, that's what it seems to mean: if he doesn't get into trouble for two
years, he doesn't do the time. It's not necessarily (literally) probation:
in that case, he'd have to meet additional requirements and there would be a
probation officer responsible for him. At least, that's how it worked when I
did some work for the Probation Service in the 1980s. It's probably all much
more politically correct now. :)

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