Illustious Republic of Grollmania

                              Office of the President of the Republic

                                   Cabinet Committee for Amnesty

The following prisoners have been selected for consideration on the occasion of the granting of
amnesty in celebration of the president’s birthday.

Prisoner One           5 year sentence (3 years served)

Prisoner One is a 20 years old student who hacked into the National Police computer system and
tried to remove the details of his previous criminal record: unpaid speeding fines totaling €250.
He also used police credit card numbers to order weekly pizzas for himself and other university
friends for nearly a year.

Prisoner Two         10 year sentence (5 years served)

A 55 years old man who hit and killed a child while he was driving home after work. He had been
drinking and there were high levels of alcohol in his blood. The man’s wife is suffering from
terminal cancer and Prisoner Two suffers from depression. Before he went to prison, he had never
been in trouble with the police before.

Prisoner Three        5 year sentence (2 years served)

Prisoner Three is 30 years old. She is the mother of two young children (6 and 3). Police found one
kilogram of marijuana in her appartment but she says it was for personal use and she was not going
to sell the drugs. Grollmania has very strict laws about possessing drugs. Prisoner Three is
unmarried and her children are being looked after by her grandmother who is 85 years old.

Prisoner Four          8 year sentence (1 year served)

A 24 years old university student who was accused of terrorism. Police found chemicals in his room
which could be used to build bombs. The student said that these were part of a university project
(he is a bio-chemistry student) and that he was taking them to his university laboratory. Before
his arrest, Prisoner 4 was a member of an environmental group which had used violence against the
police.




Prisoner Five         10 year sentence (6 years served)

A 40 years old businessman. Police discovered that he had stolen €25 million from his own company.
He said he needed the money to pay for his teenage childrens’ private education. In the past,
Prisoner 5 has given a lot of money to charity, as well as funding Grollmania’s successful Olympic
Games team and national football squad.

Prisoner Six            8 year sentence (7 years served)

A young woman who was arrested for stealing food from a supermarket. This was not the first time
she had done this, and she had been warned about her actions several times in the past. She has no
home and she didn’t have a job before she went to prison. She attacked and injured one of the
police officers who arrested her.

Prisoner Seven       Life sentence (6 years served)

A prisoner of war from the neighbouring Republic of Boyneland, arrested during the war between
Grollmania and Boyneland which ended three years ago. He was a junior officer in Boyneland’s Marine
Commando Unit and was responsible for bombing a small village in the mountains of north Grollmania,
causing the death of several thousand civilians - including many children. He has always said that
he was following the orders of his superior officers. The political leaders of Boyneland want his
release as a sign of friendship between our countries.

Prisoner Eight          7 year sentence (1 year served)

A landlord who owns many houses and flats in the capital city. He owns a block of flats which is in
a dangerous condition. He was also renting apartments to illegal immigrants for very high rents.
The illegal immigrants were often not able to pay their rent and Prisoner 8 would use violence
against them

Prisoner Nine          15 year sentence (9 year served)

A politician who is a leading member of the Ultra Power group, a political party who want to take
over the government and introduce a one-party state. While she has been in prison, the UP has lost
a lot of power. She also used UP party money to pay for her own holidays and those of her close
friends. She has inoperable, terminal cancer and is not expected to live more than a few months.