Agreed. Some sentences really don't make sense do they. It's like this Baby P thing.....how can you only get 5/6 years (of which, as you say, they'll probably only serve half) for killing a baby?
Surely that's 20 years at least, no matter how inept social services were deemed to be.
Commit fraud though and they lock you up and throw away the key. It's a nonsense really.
Good to see Wigan have sacked him though. He deserves that, if for no other reason that he kept it completely secret from the managers. He was basically lying to them and hoping he'd get away with it. Add in his past convictions, and it doesn't paint him in a very good light at all.