read it here
says that the detection of crime by the police, the imposition of longer jail terms by the courts, and that criminals should serve more of their sentences than at present, would result in a substantial decrease in crime.
Now as a statement of the bleeding obvious this takes some beating although predictably the Ministry of Justice has dismissed the report as 'flawed', no surprise there then.
It's unlikely that the current Minister of Justice, Ken Clarke, will lose any sleep over the report, or change his liberal view, and it seems equally unlikely that soft judges such as His Honour Judge Gareth Hawkesworth will suddenly have a Damascene Conversion.
This is the judge who last week blamed 'society' for the actions of a 14 year old boy who raped a 5 year old girl, and handed him a community sentence, rather than a custodial one.
Mind, that's par for the course for this soft judge who last year declined to jail 26 year old Turon Ali who had groomed a 14 year old girl for sex as he was, 'a young man unable to control his sexual urges', which means he was, and presumably still is, a danger to any female he takes a fancy to, reason enough to teach him the consequences of his actions by the imposition of a substantial jail term.
One question I was asked when I applied to be a Magistrate was did I have any problems sending people to jail when necessary, it seems judges don't have to give a similar assurance........pity!
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