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Make defendant attendance at sentencing hearings for serious crimes compulsory.

Submitted on Saturday 26th August 2023

Rejected on Wednesday 30th August 2023

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make defendant attendance at sentencing hearings for serious crimes compulsory.

Petition Details

The sentencing hearing allows the judge to hold the defendant accountable for their actions and gives the victims and their families voices. It is an injustice to allow defendants of heinous crimes such as murder to evade this hearing.

Additional Information

The law regarding this needs to be amended to ensure all defendants of serious crimes are held accountable and their attendance to the sentencing hearing should be made mandatory under UK statutory law.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for the same action:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/636546

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