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Fiona Onasanya gets tough on crime | Coffee House
However the judge may weigh up the merits of sending parliament’s finest to the slammer, Mr Steerpike invites readers in the meantime to consider a fine interjection made by one… Fiona Osanaya on the subject of law and order in the House of Commons earlier this year. On 2 July, in a debate on the subject of pet theft, Onasanya made this convincing plea in the Chamber for ministers to consider raising the sentence for a serious crime:
‘I want to highlight something that I hope the Minister will cover. The lower the category, the lower the sentence, with little in the way of repercussions. That makes the crime even more attractive because it is low risk and high reward, so that needs to be borne in mind when looking at sentencing.’ |
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