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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rhiannon James

Sentence reductions should be less generous if ‘no question of guilt’ – MP

Bethany Branson, who was killed in a car crash in 2022, pictured with her family (Amy Branson/PA) - (PA Media)

Automatic sentence reductions for guilty pleas should be less “generous” when there is “no question of guilt”, a Conservative MP has said, following calls from the family of a crash victim.

Offenders who plead guilty at the first available opportunity are given a discount of one-third under current sentencing guidelines.

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