But it was difficult to explain: explanations of the kind are generally more hurtful than the original offence.

And mark you, the punishment was not for the original offence, but for the offence of running away.

Queensland Strawberry Growers Association vice president Adrian Schultz says it's become so widespread, copy cats must be following on from the original offence.

Thereupon he was sentenced, more for his contumacy than for the original offence, to suspension from the college for two or three months.

It declares special victim-status for the speaker, with any further examination of the "deeply offensive" matter simply adding to the original offence.

Several interrogatories were then addressed to him, which he answered in a manner calculated, in the judgment of his hearers, to aggravate the original offence.

And women who fail to comply often end up in prison -"even where the original offence would never have merited a custodial sentence".