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In , he was strongly criticised after telling a burglar he was sentencing that it took a "huge amount of courage" to burgle someone's home. Informing the defendant, Richard Rochford, that he would not have the nerve to be burglar, the judge said: "I'm going to take a chance on you, an extraordinary chance, one which I don't often take. The remarks prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to comment that burglars were not brave but cowards and their crimes were hateful.

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Legal colleagues were supportive of the judge however, with one saying he had been vindicated in giving the offender a suspended sentence when he reportedly "sailed through" the court order issued as an alternative to prison. A source said at the time: "I think that vindicates the judge, who was unfairly criticised for going this lad a chance because he had already made efforts to beat drugs.

Mark Martin was already on a suspended jail sentence for possessing child porn when Judge Bowers ruled he should not be locked up after police found 48 more illegal images on his phone. He was appointed an assistant recorder in , a recorder in and a circuit judge in He was the designated civil judge for Teesside from until The Office for Judicial Complaints also examined comments about the girl made by the judge, Nigel Peters QC, in his sentencing remarks following a trial in London.

In his summing up he said the ten-year-old's clothing was "provocative" and that she looked Earlier the same year, he suggested that another victim of child sex abuse could be bought a bicycle "to cheer her up". He said the man was driven to assault the girl because his wife's pregnancy had dimmed her sexual appetite, causing "considerable problems for a healthy young husband".

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