The single offence of murder should be replaced by an American-style system based on the seriousness of the killing, the Director of Public Prosecutions said last night. “I am strongly in favour of a system that recognises degrees of homicide” he said in an interview.
His call will be backed by the judiciary, which has long resented the straitjacket of the existing law. The DPP said he believed that most murder convictions would still carry a mandatory life sentence but that offenders slipped through the net under the present law.
Alcohol at Christmas
We all know alcohol wreaks havoc with our waistlines, but that doesn’t stop us bingeing on booze during the Christmas party season. And though our indulgences always seem like a good idea at the time, they also lead to carb-craving hangovers.
New fashion
The women, the Daily Mail wrote recently in a characteristic burst of maidenly distaste, “pull their shoddily dyed hair back in that ultra-tight bun known as ‘council house facelift’, wear skirts too short for their mottled blue thighs and expose too much of their distressingly flabby midriffs.”
Ex-squatter swaps red noses for red boxes.
How times and the shifting sands of politics can change a man. Once a plain campaigning squatter, now a junior Home Office minister, Steve Bassam has undergone a successful political change.
