I'm glad they didn't go to jail--seems like overkill for something like this. But as far as Asperger's is concerned, seemed like he had enough social know-how to handle a big banker's job, which isn't all math & numbers, I wouldn't think, at that level--he would have had to have a lot of social knowledge. And cheating isn't just a social faux pas, it's cheating! So I'm not sure where the AS comes in and why it was even brought up, as this kind of thing is liable to make people who don't know much about Asperger's think people with AS are untrustworthy. I suppose that bank will never hire another Aspie again after this. I think he should have left AS out of it.

There's nothing about Asperger's that predisposes someone to cheat. If, as Jane Fleming says in her comment, a lot of others do this, what are their excuses?

Norah, Seattle, Washington/ USA

Most of my friends completed Economics courses at York, some even manageing to pass off their efforts through gaining a BSc... I always wondered how they did it....

Justin, London,

Even though it's a suspended sentence, I still find it rather harsh to even consider a jail term for such a minor misdemeanour.

I'm quite certain that there are many people walking our streets that have committed violent crimes - they surely have to be a more pressing concern? It isn't like we have plenty of room in our prisons.

More importantly, I think greater compassion and understanding should be forthcoming vis-a-vis somebody with Asperger's Syndrome, which is an autistic disorder. But I'm not surprised that it wasn't taken into account, given our hypocritical societal attitudes towards sufferers of disorders we cannot visibly see, and therefore do not fully understand.

It would be disgusting if such an apparently great mind lost his career over this. He's paying for his "crime", and that should be the end of the matter. Like I said, there are many worse things he could have done.

Mark G, Cardiff,