Sandro Cirianni admitted to stealing more than $200,000 from his charity employer to pay for renovations to his Bundoora home, including a swimming pool.  

Cirianni was ordered to complete 300 hours of community work and fined $3750 on top of having paid back the amount in full. My question, along many others would be why Cirianni did not receive a custodial sentence for his embezzlement of such a large amount of money? 

The many people who have given generously to this organisation over many years must be very disappointed as to how Guide Dogs Victoria have let this occur.

If the presiding magistrate could show us the courtesy to explain as to how this conclusion of ordering Cirianni to complete 300 hours of community work and fined $3750 for his swindle came to be. I suppose Cirianni had good prospects of not offending again and paid the money back. 

I thought people appeared in court for the crimes they committed, not the crimes they may commit in the future. Maybe he had a good lawyer. I feel sorry for the dogs.

I write regarding the story ‘Punched for theft check’, The Border Mail, December 20. This is yet another example where an offender has got off with a slap on the wrist.

The offender was a person who had an extensive record of violence who assaulted a retail worker and threatened to kill him. What a waste of space the legal system is in NSW, and especially Albury. The magistrate should hold his head down in shame and send an apology to the victim of this lunatic.

When are our gutless political masters going to face the truth and see the daily current road carnage as it really is, and support the police with sensible and deterrent initiatives?

Unlicensed, culpable drivers, stolen vehicles, police chases, drug driving, cowardly hit an runs, high-range alcohol driving and road rage attacks causing death or injury need to be re-classified as major crimes and not misdemeanour like.

Why is killing or maiming through deliberate action in a motor vehicle a lesser crime than by other means? Kill or maime with a gun or other weapon, you will quickly be incarcerated, not likely given a suspension or bail to treat with contempt and continue to offend regardless with deadly result. And then, in most cases, go on to receive "forgiveness" from our courts.

These boundaries of reality have well and truly been crossed. This situation is now nothing short of "road murder" and/or "road grievous bodily harm". These actions should immediately be re-classified as such in the criminal code with court enforcement.

How many more shocking cases of these crimes killing innocent families, family members, kids and others, must we see before there is action taken to remove these low-lives from society? It's time to show some intestinal initiative pollies. Go to the carnage with police and ambulance, to the hospital, to the morgue, to the family home, the funeral/s, the court process. Then you may just take some action.