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Shoplifters should only be sent to jail if they used violence during their crime, the Sentencing Advisory Panel has recommended. The body responsible for advising on sentencing guidelines said that people guilty of a “standard offence” of stealing from a shop should not get more than a community order unless there were “aggravating factors”. It… Read more »
Disgraced former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy would be welcome to rejoin the party’s front bench, Menzies Campbell has said. The current leader told a conference in Edinburgh that he believed Mr Kennedy was right to quit in January, following a loss of confidence in his leadership by Lib Dem MPs and concerns about his… Read more »
