Clause 4
Fraud (Trials Without a Jury) Bill
5:15 pm
Dominic Grieve (Shadow Attorney General & Shadow Spokesman On Community Cohesion, Law Officers (Assist the Home Affairs Team); Beaconsfield, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman’s point is important. He may join with me in inquiring about something on which the Solicitor-General may be able to help us later. A six-year sentence is a very long one by modern standards, particularly for fraud. If it is being suggested that the level of criminality was not reflected in the final outcome of the sentence, it would be interesting to know the view of the Solicitor-General on the sort of sentence that the total criminality ought to have attracted. I really wonder whether it would in reality have been very much.