Sunday, February 19, 2006

Home Secretary Clarke backs juvenile robbers' community sentence plans/ 24dash.com, 17 Feb 2006

http://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNews.php?navID=7&newsID=3237
"Home Secretary Charles Clarke has backed plans for juvenile robbers who use 'minimal force' to be given a community sentence. Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf's made a ruling in 2002 that all street robbers who use violence should be jailed. But Clarke said he was satisfied that draft guidelines set out by the Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC) were 'broadly right'."