This is a summary of responses to the public consultation undertaken by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on the revised legal guidance prepared to update its current Mentally Disordered Offenders legal guidance, and a statement of the revisions proposed which will form the finalised guidance to be issued.
A man who drove from Bedford to Worthing before abducting a 13-year-old boy and subjecting him to a three-and-a-half-hour ordeal, where he was raped and sexually assaulted, has been jailed for 10 years.
Director of Public Prosecutions, Stephen Parkinson, said: “It is widely acknowledged that racial disproportionality exists in our criminal justice system, but acknowledgment must not be taken as acceptance.
