I remember this nightmare of a story. It made me sick to read about it. I can't believe so many years have passed. What is that government thinking????? Here are their thoughts. Sick.
Sentence 'reduced' .....
Last October the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, effectively ended the boys' tariff - the minimum period they must spend in custody.
He ruled that it would not benefit the boys to spend time in what he dubbed the "corrosive atmosphere" of young offenders' institutions.
