THE number of knife thugs avoiding prison has more than doubled in a decade, figures show. Some 4,800 offenders got suspended sentences compared to 2,213 in 2013. The number of cautions and fines f…
have claimed they will half knife crime in a decade if they make it to No10.
As more and more wrong-uns are locked up, the space in Britain’s jails has been increasingly squeezed. The Ministry of Justice insisted there had been a rise in the number going to jail for knife crime — up from 4,611 in 2013 to 5,798 this year so far.
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