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Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords]: Sentencing Guidelines (23 Jun 1998)

Mr Richard Allan: ...are taken more seriously than others. In some cases, they can even be used as mitigating factors—in citing the homosexual panic defence, for example, individuals justify their attacks on gay people by saying, "I was scared because he was making an approach, so I had to hit him, guv." We believe that such a defence is unacceptable, and we hope that the sentencing guidelines will...

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