Justice secretary Dominic Raab has vowed to hand judges power to compel serious offenders to face their victims while being sentenced for their crimes, after the family of murdered law graduate Zara Aleena hit out at the current rules as “unjust”.
Jordan McSweeney was jailed for life with a minimum term of 38 years this week after “prowling the streets of Ilford looking for women to attack”, before sexually assaulting and murdering the 35-year-old as she walked home from a night out.
