Can You Force Criminals Into Court?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Offenders will be made to attend sentencing hearings under new laws.
Farah Naz, the aunt of Zara Aleena, who was killed in 2022, joins Adam to talk about her experience of the perpetrator not attending his sentencing. Former Old Bailey judge Wendy Joseph KC explains the difficulties of forcing criminals into the dock.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said that the UK will not disengage with China as he travels to Beijing for talks. Cindy Yu, the Assistant Editor at the Spectator and host of the magazine’s Chinese Whispers podcast discusses whether the UK is reliant on China.
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Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Clare Williamson and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The editor is Damon Rose.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, I'm back. |
| 0:05.8 | Thank you very much to Sima for keeping the seat warm. |
| 0:08.4 | I need to come up with a new way of saying that, |
| 0:10.0 | that's such a cliche, isn't it? |
| 0:11.5 | Anyway, in this episode, we're going to be talking |
| 0:14.2 | about the Foreign Secretary's trip to China, |
| 0:16.7 | and we're going to hear about government plans |
| 0:18.5 | to change the law, to force offenders to be in court |
| 0:22.7 | for when their sentence is delivered. |
| 0:25.2 | This is after Lucy Letby became the latest person |
| 0:28.4 | to not turn up for that moment. |
| 0:31.4 | Now, lots of reaction to the bombshell news, |
| 0:36.0 | the newscast is now going to be available seven days a week |
| 0:39.3 | with Laura Kaye and Paddy sitting in these seats. |
| 0:43.3 | Weber Dabra says, just listening to today's podcast, |
| 0:46.3 | which was the previous episode where we announced this, |
| 0:48.2 | she said, so excited to have the family back together again. |
| 0:51.4 | Crazed Alamo says, hope there's also more time |
| 0:53.7 | with the weekends to get a catcher on. |
| 0:57.6 | Catchers, there's an open invitation |
| 0:59.2 | that my door is always open, as you actually discovered |
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