People sentenced for similar offences are more likely to offend after a short prison sentence than if they had been given a community sanction.

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The United Kingdom is facing a potential increase in crime due to planned reforms to sentencing by the UK Government. While the reforms are directed to shift away from short custodial sentences and ...

An Iranian asylum seeker has been sentenced to two years for sexually assaulting a young woman in Leeds. The incident ...

Parents criticised UK sentencing and deportation policies after a former nursery worker was jailed for a term that could see her released within months. The said worker was convicted last June of ...

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Britain's Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper gives a statement on Iran at the House of Commons in London, Britain, January 13, 2026. © House of Commons/Handout via ...

LONDON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - British foreign minister Yvette Cooper on Thursday condemned as "totally unjustifiable" the 10-year sentence given to a British couple in Iran for spying, saying the ...