"If ever a case calls for a deterrent sentence, this is it," Rivlin told Woollard.
And they were given deterrent sentences because a bigger approach to sentencing was taken beyond that individual.
What happened is going to have a profound impact on everyone, not least those who received deterrent sentences.
The prosecution asked for deterrent sentences because of an alarming increase in arrivals, the prospect of overcrowded prisons, and lack of resources to block new waves of illegals.
Prosecutors were fairly robust in their defence of custodial and deterrent sentences, though occasionally admitting to the febrile atmosphere in which such sentencing took place, and occasionally talked in more sympathetic tones about the large number of first-time offenders.
He said that deterrent sentences were to be expected for those who commit acts of violence or theft of valuable items but added: "There will be a shakedown of the less serious cases although all forms of looting and rioting are going to attract greater sentences.
Despite mass arrests, incarceration, serious public order charges, jail, fines, deterrent sentences and police violence, despite authorities and the media who spend so much time, money and effort making protest seem pointless, unpleasant and dangerous, people are coming out onto the streets and, in many cases, staying there.
"The government should lose no more time in bringing in appropriate deterrent sentences to combat the unlawful trade in personal data," he said in reaction to the committee's report.
