Not exact matches
More cases will be pursued and tougher
sentences sought by sending
suspects straight to Crown Court, Keir Starmer, QC, will say as he sets out new
guidelines for the Crown Prosecution Service... The move comes amid a general government crackdown on benefit fraud.
There's a long list of steps being taken: a new offence of possessing «paedophilic manuals»; a strengthening of
sentencing guidelines for computer hacking operations; new powers to seize and destroy chemical substances
suspected of being used as cutting agents for illegal drugs.
I
suspect there is a big internal stuggle there between those who want the return of mandatory
sentencing guidelines and those who don't.