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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 4 July 2025

Debate

Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL]

Contribution

How can the Government deny resentencing to those people still inside more than 10 years past their minimum sentence? I remind noble Lords that we are talking about people who have been locked up for more than a decade longer than somebody else convicted of exactly the same crime but before 2005 or 2012. A lot of nonsense is spoken about two-tier justice, but this is one situation where the label seems to apply. It is not right, and it is certainly not fair.

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