John Worboys

Attorney General written question – answered at on 15 January 2018.

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Photo of Gareth Johnson Gareth Johnson Conservative, Dartford

To ask the Attorney General, how many requests were received by his Department requesting the referral of the sentence in R v John Worboys to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence Scheme in 2009; and who those requests were made by.

Photo of Jeremy Wright Jeremy Wright The Attorney-General

According to our records, in 2009 the Attorney General’s Office received requests to refer John Worboys’s sentence to the Court of Appeal from a charity that campaigned against violence against women, and from an MP who passed on a constituent’s complaint about the sentence.

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