Jail Might Make You Depressed

Let's see if I've got this right:

A certain female ex-MP stole £53000 in the worst of all case of MP expenses fraud yet did not have to appear in court nor enter a plea to the 15 charges of false accounting and six of using false information she faced because the likelyhood of imminent imprisonment had made her too depressed to stand trial - well it would wouldn't it?

Despite a  jury in a rare ‘trial of issue’ finding that the case against this woman was ‘proved’ she will not be punished nor receive a criminal record.

I wonder how long it will be, now the cloud of two or three years in jail has been lifted from her thieving head, before she makes a remarkable recovery from her present 'depressed state'?

Answers on a postcard please to His Honour Mr Justice Saunders at Southwark Crown Court.