§ Tony BaldryTo ask the Solicitor-General if she will make a statement on the Attorney-General's decision not to refer the case of Paul Skuse to the Court of Appeal. [95934]
§ The Solicitor-GeneralNo convicted parents or carers of children killed while in their care were the subject of unduly lenient sentence applications in 2001 or 2002.
736WIn 2001 no cases involving assaults by parents or carers of children in their care were the subject of unduly lenient sentence applications.
In 2002 the Court of Appeal considered the sentence imposed in one case where the offender, who was the victims' father, faced offences including cruelty to his two children. The Court of Appeal decided to make the sentences imposed in respect of the cruelty offences, run consecutive to the sentences he faced for other offences and increased the total sentence from eight years to 13 years.