§ Mrs. BrookeTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people were sentenced to a period of imprisonment by court martial in the last year; and for what offences. [41362]
§ Mr. IngramDuring the year 2000, which is the most recent year for which complete figures are available at this time, the number of service personnel sentenced to imprisonment and military detention by courts-martial was as follows:
Royal Navy
Military detention—nine, consisting of:
- Three for assault
- Two for actual bodily harm
- Two for theft
- One for dishonesty
- One for possession of drugs
Army
Imprisonment–31 consisting of:
- 15 for offences concerned with violence Nine for sexual offences
- Four for theft
- Three for drug related offences
Military detention-–257, consisting of: 100 for crimes of violence:
- 82 for absence without leave
- 35 for theft
- Nine for sexual offences
- Six for drug related offences
- Five for desertion
- Four for driving under the influence
- One for criminal damage
- 15 for other offences
Royal Air Force
Imprisonment—four, consisting of:
- Two for furnishing false information
- One for theft
- One for indecent and common assault
Military detention–19, consisting of:
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- Five for false accounting
- Five for actual bodily harm—one with battery, one with drunkenness
Two for theft—one with obtaining by deception, one with prejudice to good order and wilful damage
- One for unlawful wounding
- One for failure to attend for duty One for drug possession
- One for battery
- One for disgraceful conduct, drunkenness and disobeying lawful command
- One for indecent assault
- One for obtaining property by deception and theft.
Notes:
1. The figures listed do not include suspended detentions.
2. Five members of the Army received other forms of custodial sentences (eg Young Offenders Institution, three for crimes of violence and two for AWOL).