Crooks must face court, not cautions; JUSTICE.Byline: JAMES LYONS James Lyons can refer to:
POLICE must not let violent criminals escape court, Justice Secretary Jack Straw warned yesterday. Mr Straw ordered a review following revelations that up to 40,000 assaults a year are dealt with using fines or cautions. The cases included a 15-year-old boy accused of rape and a thug who smashed a glass in a landlady's face. Mr Straw said that the guidance was clear: "A simple caution should be used for low-level offending of·fend v. of·fend·ed, of·fend·ing, of·fends v.tr. 1. To cause displeasure, anger, resentment, or wounded feelings in. 2. . Only in exceptional circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or should it be used to deal with more serious offences." Magistrates say the use of pounds 80 fixed-penalty notices has got out of hand. Police have issued more than two million cautions in the past eight years, government figures show, and 500,000 fixed penalties between 2005 and 2007, for crimes including robbery, burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. and ABH ABH Actual Bodily Harm ABH American Board of Hypnotherapy ABH Anywhere But Here (fan fiction mode) ABH Agentschap voor Buitenlandse Handel ABH Aviation Boatswain's Mate (aircraft handling) . Mr Straw denied that fines and cautions were promoted to ease pressure on prisons. CAPTION(S): FINES REVIEW Jack Straw |
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