IT IS easy to see why people sometimes believe justice has gone haywire.

A great-grandmother from the Clifton area of York suffers an horrific attack which culminates in having her face stamped on. Her attacker, thankfully, is caught and given a suitably stiff sentence.

But now a judge at the Criminal Appeal Court in London has cut two years from the nine-year sentence handed down to Simon Watts.

Meanwhile Jean Simpson is still scared to go out, suffers headaches and has lost all her confidence. Something is badly wrong here.

Updated: 11:11 Monday, January 24, 2005