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UK: Drug runners to avoid prison under sentencing guidelines

by Tom Whitehead

The Telegraph

Tuesday 29 Mar 2011

Drug runners and small–scale dealers could escape prison even if caught with a 50–gram bag of cocaine or heroin or dozens of Ecstasy pills, under planned new guidance for courts.

Offenders who only play a "subordinate" role in drug gangs may be given a community order if found supplying "small" quantities of drugs.

But under the proposed guideline from the Sentencing Council, that would include up to 50 grams of cocaine – or 50 "wraps" – up to a kilo of cannabis or 99 Ecstasy tablets.

It is the first time all courts in England and Wales would be handed a specific chart setting out how the role and quantity of drugs should impact on sentencing.

So-called "drug mules" are also expected to be handed shorter sentences after the Council, the official body that guides courts on sentencing, warned they can be forced or tricked in to the crime.

Those convicted of possession offences may also avoid prison even if found with 10g of cocaine or heroin, or 20 Ecstasy pills.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8411745/Drug-runners-to-avoid-prison-under-sentencing-guidelines.html

 

 

 

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