Sir Keir Starmer recommended slashing jail time for drug mules
SIR Keir Starmer recommended slashing the time drug mules spend behind bars.
The Labour leader — dubbed Sir Softie for his record on crime — sat on the sentencing council as Director of Public Prosecutions.
The council recommended shorter jail terms for cons convicted of “importation of Class A drugs”.
They agreed to “reduce the sentence penalty for a specific group of defendants, namely drug mules”.
As a result, average sentences fell by one year and seven months — from around eight years to just six years.
Tory MP Marco Longhi, who sits on the Home Affairs Select Committee said: “He isn’t just Sir Softie for reducing sentencing and for fighting to keep foreign criminals in this country — he’s Sir Shameless.”
Labour insiders said Sir Keir was only working within guidance set by the Government and agreed by parliament.
They added that under the offence of “Importation of a Class A Drug” there was never a differentiation between lead traffickers and “mules” who are often women, who were coerced or intimidated into doing it.
A spokeswoman for Sir Keir said: “Odd for bungling Tories to want a row about reducing sentences given judges have recently been asked by the Justice Secretary to send fewer people to prison because of overcrowding and backlogged courts.”
Keir's bad decision
A THUG who stayed in the UK after Sir Keir Starmer campaigned against his deportation has been jailed for battery.
Drug dealer Tajay Thompson was due to be deported in 2020 but the Labour leader fought successfully against it.
In July, Thompson threw a woman, 27, to the ground at Battersea Station in July, breaking her ribs. He got 31 months.