The ban on Lucy Connolly being permitted temporary release from jail to see her young daughter and sick husband is unprecedented, says David Shipley. Even murderers get that. The instruction must have come from higher up.
Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood has been humiliated by the Sentencing Council as the judges refuse her request to rescind their two-tier anti-white guidelines, which will now come into force on Tuesday.
Netflix's Adolescence perpetuates the lazy trope of portraying a white boy as the perpetrator of deadly violence against girls, despite this being very rare in reality. But the Government is no better, says David Shipley.
Ex-con turned prison reformer David Shipley asks why so many people only very loosely connected to the Southport riots, if at all, have been sent to prison.
