This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Deciding what offence to charge a person with is a matter for the Crown Prosecution Service, and not the Government or Parliament.

We have published a petition calling for a mandatory jail sentence for assaulting (eg. spitting/coughing) emergency worker, which you might like to sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/309432

You could start a new petition calling for the Government to create a new offence, with sentences equivalent to attempted murder, if that is what you would like to happen.

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Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

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