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The sharp end of knife issue
Aug 3 2008 Sunday Sun
GORDON BROWN’S idea of getting tough on knife crime is pathetic in my opinion.
He still refuses to back public opinion that anyone found carrying a weapon — without a lawful excuse — should be jailed, giving his reason as the fact that jails are full.
Someone needs to point out to this blinkered Prime Minister and his equally useless Home Secretary that, last year alone, 45,000 people were jailed for non-violent crime, including 182 for stealing a bike and 43 for bankruptcy. I appreciate that sentencing is a matter for the law courts, but the Government give them guidelines.
Has the Government never thought of changing these guidelines in order to introduce harsher sentencing, or is that beyond their capability? I have two suggestions . . . build more jails or, better still, change those we have into places where criminals do not want to go back to — JOAN McTIGUE, independent councillor, Middlesbrough.
We’d like to think Gordon Brown is aware that 45,000 people were jailed for non-violent offences last year, including bike stealing, as we exclusively revealed this in the Sunday Sun two weeks ago.
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