If he were a criminal offender, he must surely be an incorrigible hypocrite; and if he were no offender, why should Mr Meagles have collared him in the Circumlocution Office?

You wouldn't suppose him to be a public offender; would you?'

He is a public offender. What has he been guilty of?

The moment he addresses himself to the Government, he becomes a public offender! Sir,' said Mr Meagles, in danger of making himself excessively hot again, 'he ceases to be an innocent citizen, and becomes a culprit.

This union would certainly have been attended with several advantages; but would they not have been overbalanced by the signal disadvantage, already stated, arising from the agency of the same judges in the double prosecution to which the offender would be liable?

But is must be stated that the people of that Land were generally so well-behaved that there was not a single lawyer amongst them, and it had been years since any Ruler had sat in judgment upon an offender of the law.

I should be the last man in the world to object, since I am myself an offender in that respect.

And thus I had a second escape, for they were convicted, and both hanged, being old offenders, though but young people.

According to the account of White Plume, however, matters were pretty fairly balanced between him and the offenders; he having as often treated them to a taste of the bitter, as they had robbed him of the sweets.

Boy after boy, he called the offenders out and gave them their choice; and, boy by boy, each one elected to pay the fine imposed.

And, like his olden nights, his ukase went forth that there should be no quarrelling nor fighting, offenders to be dealt with by him personally.

This is the equivalent of one sex offender for every 747 people aged 10 and over.

The statistics show there were 4,701 registered sex offenders living in Wales at the end of March 2018, the equivalent of one sex offender for every 844 people aged 10 and over.

This is the equivalent of one sex offender for every 844 people aged 10 and over.