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UK wants tougher sentences for crude terror plots

Lord Justice Treacy

By: Sarwar Alam

A judicial body in the UK has proposed tougher action against less sophisticated terror plots in the country. The body in charge of ensuring consistent penalties and sentences. Existing UK legislation imposes lesser sentences on those who plan more crude and rudimentary plots using cars or knives and not bombs and weapons. Under proposals by the UK Sentencing Council, minimum terror sentences would rise to three to six years, compared to 21 months to five years under current law. The new legislation would also allow people who helped the plotters, even slightly, to be charged. “The latest acts of terrorism…

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