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Daily Mail
May 12, 2014
Nearly 12,000 criminals have walked free from British courts with suspended sentences despite having at least ten previous convictions, it was revealed today.
A staggering 11,670 repeat offenders had their prison terms suspended last year – with 9,052 of these having 15 or more previous convictions on their record.
The suspended sentences were meted out for a range of offences, including theft, molesting children, taking a bomb into a hotel, benefit fraud, burglary and faking a death.
They were also handed to criminals who had thrown fireworks into a crowd, strangled a cat and had sex with a dog.
The latest figures, dating from May 2012 to June 2013, were released today in a report by the Centre for Crime Prevention think-tank.
Researchers claim they are part of an increasing trend for British judges to suspend the sentences of serious criminals and repeat offenders.
Peter Cuthbertson, the report’s author and centre director, said that, altogether, 31 per cent of jail sentences were suspended last year – compared with just two per cent a decade ago.
One judge apparently told researchers that suspended sentences are now handed out in courts ‘a bit like confetti’.
It comes as information released by a Freedom of Information request has revealed that 110,745 criminals with previous suspended sentences were convicted for further offences last year.
A shocking 215 of these criminals had ten or more suspended sentences behind them.
