Attorney General agrees to review paedophile sentencing
16th December 2009
Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, has agreed to Mike Penning MP’s request to review the sentence handed out to local paedophile Colin Wray.
In response to a request from Hemel Hempstead MP, Mike Penning, the Attorney General has asked the Crown Prosecution Service to send her the case papers of paedophile Colin Wray.
Colin Wray was jailed for four years after being convicted of a selection of test cases from a series of attacks on children that took place between 1978 and 1987. Some of these attacks took place in Hemel Hempstead.
Mike Penning said:
"I am delighted that the Attorney General has agreed that the case is worth looking at. It is outrageous and very worrying that this monster could be eligible for release after just 16 months.”
The Attorney General has the power to refer sentences to the Court of Appeal for review. She will now examine the case papers in this case and decide whether or not to do that.
Mike has prompted the Attorney General to review sentences in several cases and has consistently called for leniency in sentencing guidelines to be debated in the House of Commons.
