A former lord chief justice has urged Sir Keir Starmer to end the scandal of cruel indefinite jail terms, accusing ministers of ignoring “the urgency of the situation”, as scores of prisoners languish ...
BBC Newsnight spoke to Matthew Booth, 34, about the IPP sentence he received in 2007 Five prisoners serving indefinite sentences have been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review ...
Campaigners and families have urged members of the House of Lords to back calls for a resentencing of offenders who are serving an "inhuman" sentence that was abolished more than a decade ago. On ...
Dame Vera Baird is a doughty champion in the fight against injustice. As chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, she has asked the appeal courts to look at the cases of five men who are serving ...
Dame Vera Baird is a doughty champion in the fight against injustice. As chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, she has asked the appeal courts to look at the cases of five men who are serving ...
Five prisoners serving indefinite sentences have been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), BBC Newsnight has been told. Despite being abolished in 2012, ...