I was talking about a Magistrate's Court, so when you say "actual bad guys" we're talking like, maybe a drink driver? Knocked somebody's tooth out in a bar fight? A year of unpaid parking fines? Shoplifted a frozen turkey?

I'm not suggesting we throw these people a celebratory party, but they're no Ted Bundy or Buster Edwards. Most of them would - if they had woken up on the right day and showed something resembling remorse for whatever they did - never have seen the inside of a jail cell. They'd have been given a fine or some type of "community pay back" type sentence like they have to clean graffiti off walls or pick litter from the side of a road, and told not to get into trouble again. Some of them won't. Some will.

Crown Courts deal with more serious offences, and obviously if it's alleged you are a real danger, that you will most likely offend seriously again if released, or you have means and motive to flee, they'll just imprison you "on remand".

But there isn't this business of "Oh well we'll just assume everybody is a flight risk and demand piles of cash for their release" which is just obviously corrupt.