Lucy Connolly is the victim of a great injustice
Lucy Connolly has lost her appeal against her 31-month sentence for inciting racial hatred following the following the horrific murders…
The problem with Shabana Mahmood’s electronic tag roll-out
David Gauke’s sentencing review, which will report this week, is going to be far bolder than anyone expected. Today it…
The legal aid hack is very worrying
If you are ever unfortunate enough to need legal advice after being charged with a crime, and you can’t afford…
We are losing control of our prisons
After the horrific attacks at Frankland, after last week’s attack at Belmarsh, and after countless warnings, today’s news of three…
Peter Sullivan should never have been in prison
Peter Sullivan, a man of ‘limited intellectual capacity’ and ‘suggestibility’, has been exonerated after spending 38 years in jail for…
Why was Axel Rudakubana given a kettle?
Late last night, news broke of another attack by a high-profile prisoner at what should be one of our most…
Why are violent prisoners continuing to offend in jail?
Even for our broken prison service it’s been a terrible few days. On Saturday the jihadi terrorist Hashem Abedi used…
How could the HMP Frankland attack happen?
On Saturday, an awful assault took place at HMP Frankland. According to a statement from the Prison Officers’ Association (the…
Who will crack down on Britain’s corrupt prison governors?
It’s a story so wild as to be almost unbelievable. Kerri Pegg was a ‘rising star’ of the prison service,…
What is Labour doing to fix the grooming gangs scandal?
Thank God for Katie Lam. Yesterday the government tried to conduct a grubby betrayal of thousands of young girls groomed…
What the Southport Inquiry needs to do
The Southport killings were horrific, but should they have happened at all? We already know that the government’s counter-extremism programme,…
Are Islamist gangs in control of Britain’s most secure prison?
HMP Frankland, in Durham, is supposed to be one of the most secure jails in the country. The category A…
Unlocked was changing inmates’ lives. So why has Labour binned it?
Unlocked Graduates, a charity that recruited hundreds of high-calibre graduates into the prison service, was one of the few glimmers…
The Sentencing Council has been humiliated
The members of the Sentencing Council have been pushed into a humiliating climbdown – but it may well be too late…
Why are ethnic minorities being prioritised for bail?
When the Ministry of Justice announced that the government would introduce emergency legislation this week to stop ‘two tier’ Sentencing…
How Paddington took over the justice system
Two RAF engineers were spared jail today, after pleading guilty to vandalising a statue of Paddington Bear in the Berkshire…
Prison bureaucracy is making inmates’ lives needlessly hard
Everyone knows that Britain’s jails are filthy, failing and dangerous. But there’s another less obvious problem with our prisons: those…
Tommy Robinson doesn’t know how lucky he is
Tommy Robinson has lost his attempt to force the prison service to move him out of segregation. Robinson’s lawyers said…
The Sentencing Council’s tone-deaf response to ‘two-tier justice’ criticism
The Sentencing Council – the organisation that advises judges on how long convicted criminals should be locked up for –…
Could ethnic minority criminals soon find it easier to avoid jail?
Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, has accused his Labour counterpart Shabana Mahmood of not believing in ‘equality under the…
Labour has until Easter to stop prisons running out of space
There are just over a thousand men’s prison places left in the UK out of a total of 88,618 total.…
The truth about Britain’s overcrowded prisons
Former justice secretary David Gauke’s Independent Sentencing Review (ISR), running since October, was not due to report until the spring.…
How Prevent failed David Amess
In October 2021, Ali Harbi Ali assassinated David Amess, the MP for Southend West. The aftermath of this killing was…
Why wasn’t the Southport killer stopped?
Now that the Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced for his horrific crimes, we can try to understand how…
Why was this convicted murderer released to kill again?
The details of the terrible murder of Sarah Mayhew are almost too appalling to bear, but one question stands out…
