David Barrett
Home Affairs Editor at Daily Mail
Home Affairs Editor, Daily Mail https://t.co/IyKGt1X8Fi Views are my own.
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2 weeks ago |
dailymail.co.uk | David Barrett |Chris Pollard
Labour is set to free killers and rapists from jail earlier under a new soft-justice masterplan. The Government’s sentencing review was last night savaged by victims and senior police officers, while the Tories dubbed it a ‘recipe for a crimewave’. The plan contains a raft of measures to slash sentences served by prisoners – from shoplifters to killers – by up to a third.
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2 weeks ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Rory Tingle |David Barrett
Proposals to allow killers and rapists out of jail earlier have today been described as a 'slap in the face' for victims. An independent sentencing review has called for criminals convicted of serious violence or sex offences to win their freedom after serving half their jail term, rather than at the current three quarters point – a one third reduction.
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2 weeks ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Sam Greenhill |David Barrett
Britain is becoming a police state under Labour, Boris Johnson warned last night. He spoke as a sentencing row erupted after a mother locked up for a tweet after the Southport murders failed in a bid to reduce her lengthy jail term. Lucy Connolly posted a vile message about migrants – but supporters point out that criminals found guilty of far more serious offences have been handed substantially shorter sentences.
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2 weeks ago |
dailymail.co.uk | David Barrett |David Churchill
Will Brits soon be able to use e-gates at European airports? Only if the EU agreesBy DAVID BARRETT and DAVID CHURCHILL Published: 23:08 EDT, 19 May 2025 | Updated: 23:08 EDT, 19 May 2025 British holidaymakers could use EU passport control lanes on the Continent again under the new deal with Europe struck yesterday – but only if member states agree to make the changes.
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3 weeks ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Rory Tingle |David Barrett
A bungling minister has wrongly claimed domestic abusers and those guilty of sexual offences will be excluded from Labour's new early release scheme. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is introducing a standard 28-day 'recall' period for released inmates who are locked up again for breaking the rules – even those who commit new offences. Currently, freed inmates can be kept behind bars for the rest of their sentence if they are recalled.
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Assisted dying laws to save the NHS up to £60million a year, with an estimated 12 people a day ultimately taking their own lives under the new measures, official documents show https://t.co/jbgIvuyHHd via @MailOnline
Illegal migrants could remain indefinitely under new sentencing plan, @RobertJenrick warns https://t.co/6rEyaR6wTt via @MailOnline
More than 150,000 migrants have reached Britain since the start of the Channel small boat crisis after a further 407 arrivals on Boxing Day, latest data from the Home Office shows. That’s 35,898 arrivals since the start of this year, including 22,324 since the general election https://t.co/hawU9M5I7Z