Rishi Sunak has backtracked on a promise to act quickly to force killers like Thomas Cashman to appear in court in a betrayal of victims’ families.
The PM failed to commit to changing the law before the next General Election to make them attend their sentencing hearings. This comes despite relatives of murder victims calling for ministers to stop dragging their feet.
The ECHO, the Labour Party and others have been calling for a change in the law that would make it more difficult for cowardly killers to hide away from the families they have torn apart at their sentencing hearings.
