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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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'Families cannot hide from the pain caused by crime but criminals can hide from justice'

Labour is right to ask why the Government is dragging its heels on forcing criminals to appear in court for sentence.

Thomas Cashman’s cowardly refusal to face the family of Olivia Pratt-Korbel has highlighted a glaring legal loophole.

Instead of protecting the rights of victims it gives offenders the right to hide in their cells when sentence is delivered.

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