Crosswords1 min ago
Fiona Onasanya
She’s been released today after serving a month of her three-month jail sentence!
Answers
1 to 6 of 6
Best Answer
No best answer has yet been selected by MWG14. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.
There was never any doubt that she would serve only 28 days.
She’s been released under “Home Detention Curfew” (HDC) which provides for release of prisoners sentenced to less than four years after they have served one quarter of their sentence (subject to a minimum service of 28 days).
She’s lucky. The HDC scheme was revised last year. Prior to that it was only available to prisoners sentenced to between four months and four years. This was deemed unfair because a prisoner sentenced to four months would be eligible for HDC and so released after one month whereas one sentenced to three months would not be eligible and so would serve six weeks (with a few exception all prisoners sentenced to determinate periods are automatically released at the half way point). This led to the ridiculous situation where those convicted were asking for a longer sentence!
The Attorney-General's office has ruled that the sentence was not "unduly lenient" (which must make Chris Huhne and his wife Vicky Pryce a bit miffed as they got eight months apiece for a similar offence):
https:/
Never mind. All this will become academic when sentences of six months or less are abolished (leaving everyone free to refuse to pay fines or complete Community Orders).
She’s been released under “Home Detention Curfew” (HDC) which provides for release of prisoners sentenced to less than four years after they have served one quarter of their sentence (subject to a minimum service of 28 days).
She’s lucky. The HDC scheme was revised last year. Prior to that it was only available to prisoners sentenced to between four months and four years. This was deemed unfair because a prisoner sentenced to four months would be eligible for HDC and so released after one month whereas one sentenced to three months would not be eligible and so would serve six weeks (with a few exception all prisoners sentenced to determinate periods are automatically released at the half way point). This led to the ridiculous situation where those convicted were asking for a longer sentence!
The Attorney-General's office has ruled that the sentence was not "unduly lenient" (which must make Chris Huhne and his wife Vicky Pryce a bit miffed as they got eight months apiece for a similar offence):
https:/
Never mind. All this will become academic when sentences of six months or less are abolished (leaving everyone free to refuse to pay fines or complete Community Orders).
1 to 6 of 6
