12 h. ago Criminals who refuse to attend sentencing to face longer jail time and loss of prison privileges

Judges will be able punish those who refuse to attend court under ‘long overdue reforms’ following outcry over killers who fail to face victim’s families at sentencing

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12 h. ago Labour's 'tough' punishments for convicts who refuse to face victims at court include... being banned from watching TV for six weeks

Labour's sanctions faced ridicule after it emerged the new punishments will be imposed for mere weeks.

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13 h. ago Criminals who refuse to attend sentencing could now receive more jail time

There have been series of high profile offenders refusing to face victims' families, including in the case of Olivia Pratt-Korbell, which has sparked a public outcry and calls by campaigners for a change in the law

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18 h. ago Ridicule as it emerges Labour's 'tough' punishments for convicts who refuse to face victims at court include... being banned from watching TV for six weeks

Labour's sanctions faced ridicule after it emerged the new punishments will be imposed for mere weeks.

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20 h. ago Criminals who refuse to attend sentencing face up to two more years behind bars and loss of prison privileges

Judges will be able punish those who refuse to attend court under ‘long overdue reforms’ following outcry over killers who fail to face victim’s families at sentencing

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2 d. ago Vile criminals who try to dodge justice will face fresh punishment under new Labour law

Cowardly offenders who fail to attend their sentencing hearings could be placed in solitary confinement in jail or face other sanctions such as having their access to the gym cut

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1 week ago Chelsea vs Barcelona LIVE: Champions League result, latest updates and reaction after emphatic loss

Chelsea have a mountain to climb if they are to progress to the UWCL final

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3 w. ago Stripping lags' privileges could make Manchester terrorist more dangerous, warns prison inspector

Removing privileges like kitchen access could make inmates like Manchester Arena terrorist Hashem Abedi more dangerous, Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor has warned

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3 w. ago My father threw out my box of memories then took his own life. How can I move on? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

Your sadness at losing reminders of happier times may have been heightened by the traumatic loss of your dad• Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a problem sent in by a readerNot long before the Covid pandemic, my dad threw out my cardboard box of mementoes that I had stored in his garage for “safekeeping”: years’ worth of personal journals, Polaroids and photos with no negatives, love letters, all of my degree essays, reams of teenage poetry, etc – the classic priceless time capsule stuff that one looks forward to revisiting one day.It was one of his final acts before taking his own life, so it was a double whammy of bereavement in which my first loss was buried by the second. And, with the pandemic arriving shortly afterwards, it stayed buried for further years as, again, I was distracted by something else serious happening. But once that had passed, the original grief returned with a vengeance and has become an abiding sorrow that’s been difficult to shake off: the feeling tha...

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4 w. ago Aston Villa’s Champions League dream depends on Unai Emery exorcising his greatest ghost

Emery’s darkest day as a manager was PSG’s 6-1 loss to Barcelona and as he prepares to face Luis Enrique once more, he can finally create a new legacy

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