Conduct Of Recorder Roger Keen And The Case Of Mr Stuart Hicken

EDM number 1435 in 1994-95, proposed by John Sykes on 18/07/1995.

That this House deplores the sentencing by Recorder Roger Keen of Mr Stuart Hicken to 150 hours of community service on a charge of unlawfully imprisoning a thief who was granted a conditional discharge; and calls for a review of sentencing policy in order to restore public faith in the courts.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.