The UN rapporteur for torture criticizes IPP sentences as a miscarriage of justice. Lord Brown and Justice Secretary Alex Chalk echo the sentiment. UK Labour supports an amendment to reverse Parole Board release test for IPP prisoners. Lord Ponsonby pledges Labour support for the critical amendment. MPs propose amendments to fix joint enterprise laws. A new amendment called the Simon Brown Memorial Amendment is debated in parliament. Labour shows courage in supporting the amendment to address the IPP scandal.
Labour finds its courage as House of Lords tackle decades of injustice in crucial vote on IPP amendments. @PeterStefanovi2 @ActionIpp @UNGRIPP @Trapped_Pod https://t.co/pkLUG0q9rt via @fmspear
ONLY 4 DAYS TO GO UNTIL CRUCIAL #IPP VOTES IN THE LORDS @UKLabour has shown its courage by supporting the “Simon Brown Memorial Amendment” which will make a huge difference in finally unpicking the tragic miscarriage of justice of the #IPPscandal Will other parties follow?… https://t.co/D97R18DVJN
Yesterday, I asked MPs to back my amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill, proposing common-sense reform of #JointEnterprise laws. There's a growing consensus that our joint enterprise laws are broken. It's time for Parliament to deliver and #EndGuiltByAssociation. https://t.co/tYOf0wPET9
‘i’m calling it the Simon Brown Memorial Amendment because of his passionate involvement in this case’ @danielmgmoylan on his #IPP amendment to the Victim’s and Prisoner’s Bill being debated in parliament next week …. #IPPScandal @UNGRIPP https://t.co/mkuWQk833c https://t.co/uDANy0zDIn
The UN rapporteur for torture has called IPP sentences an “egregious miscarriage of justice” Former supreme court justice Lord Brown called them “the greatest single stain on the justice system” & Justice Secretary @AlexChalkChelt says the same Lord Blunkett, the Labour Home… https://t.co/D97R18DVJN
Thank you @UKLabour /Lord Ponsonby for confirming your support for the amendment to reverse the Parole Board release test – it will really make a difference If @LibDems, @TheGreenParty, cross-benchers, Bishops & Tory rebels also back it on Tuesday we can unpick this cruel stain… https://t.co/OxgrzY9mJo
‘This miscarriage of justice is worse than Post Office Horizon scandal. 13yo kids are being convicted for crimes they did not commit and given a whole life sentence': @KimJohnsonMP on #jointenterprise. 40 MPs amendment to criminal justice bill 'fix law' https://t.co/Q5oLONhM0E https://t.co/eWGXAXu5N0
Lord Ponsonby - spoke at @WandsworthPIC meeting- pledges Labour support for critical amendment to IPP parole rules. Vital vote on Tuesday could help end #IPPscandal https://t.co/60jCgb5AsE
We have to trust that @UKLabour will do the right thing on these #IPP prisoners! https://t.co/gx4UPhx721
Thank you so much everyone for getting behind this tonight. No one should be imprisoned for 18 years for trying to steal a coat & 11 years for stealing a mobile phone With @UKLabour having confirmed in March its support for the Amendment to reverse the Parole Board release… https://t.co/D97R18DVJN
The UN rapporteur for torture has called IPP sentences an “egregious miscarriage of justice” Former supreme court justice Lord Brown called them “the greatest single stain on the justice system” & Justice Secretary Alex Chalk says the same Lord Blunkett, the Labour Home… https://t.co/D97R18DVJN