Criminal suspects will be freed on bail rather than remanded into custody because the Ministry of Justice is running out of prison spaces, senior lawyers have warned. The Law Society said delays ...
Criminal suspects will be freed on bail rather than being placed in custody because the prisons are full, senior lawyers have warned. The Law society said delays in court hearings ordered by the ...
Criminal suspects will be freed on bail rather than being placed in custody because the prisons are full, senior lawyers have warned. The Law society said delays in court hearings ordered by the ...
SUSPECTED criminals set to be kept in custody until their court date could be released on bail instead to ease jail overcrowding. Ministers yesterday triggered emergency measures delaying cases ...
Ministers have triggered a plan which allows the criminal justice system to delay court cases of some suspects because of overcrowding in prisons. The emergency measure means some suspects will be ...
Hundreds of criminals are set to be freed early in a controversial bid to relieve the crisis in Scotland’s massively overcrowded jails. With the number of inmates expected to hit record levels ...
A raid was carried out by local police and crime units, while residents had to be evacuated from the area ...