THE disgraceful state of Britain’s justice system should shame both the Tories and Labour.
It is shocking enough to see criminals with up to 300 previous offences being spared jail.
But the fact is that just 10 per cent of these prolific offenders are responsible for half of all crime.
These fiends bring terror to OAPs who are robbed in the street, shoppers whose phones are nabbed and revellers violently assaulted on a night out. They should be getting long stretches inside to protect the public.
But there are fears that Labour may be planning to water down sentences to ease overcrowding behind bars.
No doubt Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood will trot out the usual excuse that prisons are full.
Well, that just won’t wash.
Because we are doing next to nothing to kick out foreign lags taking up space in British jails.
This country only deported one per cent of the 10,000 foreign criminals filling up our cells in 2024.
Just 73 were returned to their home countries to serve out their sentences there. Under the Tories the figure for the year before was even worse.
The Justice Secretary urgently needs to get a grip of this crisis.
Or voters fed up with soft sentencing will dish out some justice of their own.
JIHADI bride Shamima Begum feels her case for a return to the UK has been “bolstered’’ by the fall of President Assad in Syria.
You may remember that she fled to join the murderous monsters of I.S. and was rightly stripped of her British citizenship.
The present Attorney General called that decision “draconian’’ during one of her appeals when he was working as a lawyer.
But in case Lord Hermer is thinking of changing her status, he should remember that 100 other extremists and their families in Syria would follow Begum back to the UK if she is ever given the green light.
They would not only need housing and other support but also round the clock monitoring, a huge drain on our security services.
Shamima Begum joined I.S. in the full knowledge of its murderous intent against the West.
She must never set foot on our shores again.
A SENIOR aide to the Commons Speaker has revealed the House is haunted.
This will come as no surprise to OAPs struggling with winter fuel bills.
They’ve been suffering a Westminster spine-chiller all winter.
