A temporary standing down of this Rugby League has-been is nothing but an insult to all the women of Australia and New Zealand.
Johns won't even say "sorry" to the woman involved in the tawdry incident in 2002 but he willingly apologises to his family, friends and sundry hangers-on.
But not the traumatised New Zealand woman who has suffered irreparable harm during the past 7 years.
Channel 9 wants to regain its former supremacy over Channel 7 but the way it is handling the Matthew Johns affair with kid gloves suggests it will be many years before that is likely to happen.
