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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11958253/Keir-Starmer-present-meetings-decided-not-sex-offenders-prison.html
On April 8, 2011, Keir Starmer joined some of Britain's top legal eagles at a monthly meeting of the Sentencing Council, the ultra-powerful quango that tells judges and magistrates how convicted criminals ought to be punished.
It was all in a day's work for our then-Director of Public Prosecutions, who was joined by 12 fellow members of the committee, plus no fewer than 15 officials and observers, around what must have been one of Britain's longest conference tables.
Issues they discussed ranged from the 'media coverage' of a recent consultation on drugs sentencing, which had seen members attacked for their alleged liberal bias, to proper tariffs for burglary, assault and anti-social behaviour.
But it was the seventh item on the agenda that – for Starmer, at least – would eventually prove the most controversial.
Minutes of the gathering, which was chaired by Sir Brian Leveson (of Press inquiry fame), show that Sir Keir and his fellow members were presented with 'initial findings' of a review into 'current sentencing practice for sexual offences'.
On April 8, 2011, Keir Starmer joined some of Britain's top legal eagles at a monthly meeting of the Sentencing Council, the ultra-powerful quango that tells judges and magistrates how convicted criminals ought to be punished.
It was all in a day's work for our then-Director of Public Prosecutions, who was joined by 12 fellow members of the committee, plus no fewer than 15 officials and observers, around what must have been one of Britain's longest conference tables.
Issues they discussed ranged from the 'media coverage' of a recent consultation on drugs sentencing, which had seen members attacked for their alleged liberal bias, to proper tariffs for burglary, assault and anti-social behaviour.
But it was the seventh item on the agenda that – for Starmer, at least – would eventually prove the most controversial.
Minutes of the gathering, which was chaired by Sir Brian Leveson (of Press inquiry fame), show that Sir Keir and his fellow members were presented with 'initial findings' of a review into 'current sentencing practice for sexual offences'.