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Reveal identities of children that are charged with gang and knife related crime

Submitted on Sunday 19th August 2018

Rejected on Wednesday 12th September 2018

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

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Reveal identities of children that are charged with gang and knife related crime

Petition Details

Children that are charged with gang, drug and or knife related crimes should have their identities revealed to the local community.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We can't accept your petition because decisions on naming people who have been charged with crimes are a matter for the police and courts which are independent of the UK Government or Parliament.

In cases where reporting restrictions are in place the police are obliged by the law not to name suspects. Reporting restrictions are automatic for all young people tried in a youth court. It would be for the court to decide whether to apply restrictions where a young person was tried in an adult court, which would cover most serious offences.

You could start a new petition asking for the law to be changed to allow courts to make decisions on reporting restrictions relating to all drug or knife related crimes involving young people.

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