Murder

New research reveals that murderers are now getting ‘substantially increased’ minimum prison sentences fuelling a trend of sentence inflation across other serious crimes, such as manslaughter and sexual offences. According to the report by the Sentencing Academy written by Dr Richard Martin of LSE, average minimum terms for murder have soared from 13 years in 2000 to […]

This week the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) announced it will re-examine almost 5,500 previously rejected cases to see if DNA breakthroughs can be made. This represents a significant step forward for those of us who know that the statutory miscarriage of justice review body has denied justice to scores of wrongly convicted individuals, of which Andrew