In my judgment it is totally inadequate for such a case as this.
"The sentence of the court is that each of you be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years." The sentence hushed the court in shocked surprise.
Wilde rose and cried, "Can I say anything, my lord ?" Mr.Justice Wills waved his hand deprecatingly amid cries of "Shame" and hisses from the public gallery; some of the cries and hisses were certainly addressed to the Judge and well deserved.

What did he mean by saying that Oscar was a "centre of extensive corruption of the most hideous kind"?
No evidence of this had been brought forward by the prosecution.

It was not even alleged that a single innocent person had been corrupted.

The accusation was invented by this "absolutely impartial" Judge to justify his atrocious cruelty.

The unmerited insults and appalling sentence would have disgraced the worst Judge of the Inquisition.
Mr.Justice Wills evidently suffered from the peculiar "exaltation" of mind which he had recognised in Shelley.