Minority and trans criminals could avoid jail under new rules (Times, 6 March 2025)

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https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/minority-and-trans-criminals-could-avoid-jail-under-new-rules-w52pkd7q6

https://archive.ph/azI2f

“Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, was unaware of the new guidance before it was published on Wednesday and said she would request its reversal. A Ministry of Justice source said she was “incandescent” when made aware.”

So much for blind justice. It’s good there has been such a swift, unequivocal response by both government and opposition justice ministers.

Ah. Light dawns. ‘Softer sentencing’ for minorities was based on David Lammy report

www.thetimes.com/article/c9cc1d32-e1fa-4844-910d-7a13ded21ea6?shareToken=5ee6f9efefa0243dde6654495b37cef3

Why do so many crap ideas in public life have Lammy's fingerprints on them?

Still, at least Starmer hasn't given him an important job where he could do any harm.

i would be happy if we had consistent sentencing. And i would be happy if owning images of CSA always resulted in a custodial sentence instead of a slap on the wrist.

It's not far from "men are convicted of more sex crimes than women so we need to balance out this disparity by giving them less custodial sentences".

It's like they WANT people to vote Reform!