Thread on sentencing of extremists & the risk they pose.



PM is absolutely right to end near-automatic release for sexual offenders at the half way point. I want to see the same for terrorists and extremists like Anjem Choudary who should never have been released early prison 1/

Thanks to the new Counter Terrorism & Security Act the Sentencing Council is planning to double the minimum sentence for terrorists from five to ten years. But we also need to end mid-way release due to the gravity of the crimes and the threat they pose 2/