Justice?

More than six years each for "canoe man" John Darwin and his wife does seem rather harsh. You do get the impression that they are being punished more for what they put their family - and in particular their children - through, rather than for the actual fraud they committed, and however morally reprehensible that may be, it is not a criminal offence and therefore should not be a matter for criminal punishment. Smacks a bit of the Great Train Robbery approach to sentencing, doesn't it?