http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3980917.stm
"Murder sentences should not be reduced automatically simply because of a guilty plea, says a new MPs' report.
The influential Commons home affairs committee was responding to sentencing guidelines issued this summer.
The MPs also call for tougher sentences for crimes committed under the influence of drink or drugs.
They say the influence of drugs and alcohol should be introduced as an aggravating factor when judges and magistrates sentence offenders.
Committee chairman John Denham said drugs of alcohol were sometimes used as an excuse.
Nothing at all is worth taking five years off a murder sentence
Lewis Champion
Uncle of murder victim
'We feel we've been robbed'
'The committee believes that these arguments should be rejected by sentencers and that being under their influence should instead be an aggravating factor.' "
