They should be required to face the family, so that when
they read the victim impact statement they are present and listening to it.»
Judge Simon Hurst told him: «I have had the advantage of
reading victim impact statements and it is clear that in their different ways, they were all profoundly affected by your abuse of them.
Not exact matches
They have to hear
Victim Impact statements
read in court.
One by one, parents and children rose at the sentencing to
read their
victim -
impact statements.
The government's avowed determination to eradicate myths about supposedly true
victim behaviour, in spite of there being no UK research evidence of a negative
impact by such myths on the conviction rate, makes a stark contrast with their apparent insouciance about the potentially negative
impact on the conviction rate as a cumulative result of potential jurors
reading lurid media accounts of the exposure of false rape claims.
At a sentencing hearing Thursday for his abductor, Robert Lutczyk, Potts attended with 15 family members including his four children and wife Maureen, who
read an emotional half - hour - long
victim impact statement to the court on behalf of the family.
A furious Mr Somers described Morris» behaviour as «disgusting» in his
victim's
impact statement which was
read out when she was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court today.