Submitted on Monday 25th September 2017
Rejected on Thursday 5th October 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Give Lavinia Woodward a custodial sentence for stabbing her ex boyfriend.
Lavinia Woodward was spared a custodial sentence on the pretence that she is a highly intellectual individual whose career as a cardiologist would have been tarnished with a custodial sentence. In sparing her jail you send out the wrong message to the perpetrators of knife crime. She must serve time
Oxford student Lavinia Woodward avoids jail for stabbing her ex-boyfriend
http://news.sky.com/story/oxford-student-lavinia-woodward-gets-suspended-jail-term-for-stabbing-ex-boyfriend-11053181
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
This isn't something that the UK Government or Parliament could do. Sentences are the responsibility of the courts, which are independent of the Government and Parliament.
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www.gov.uk/complain-about-low-crown-court-sentence
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