Sentence examples for rape sentencing from inspiring English sources

Ken Clarke's spot of bother over rape sentencing this week has been a classic.

Clarke's widely-criticised comments over rape sentencing triggered the loss of one key part of his plans – increased discounts for the earliest guilty pleas – before the riots.

The breach expanded today when Ken Clarke, the liberal-minded justice secretary, made remarks about rape sentencing during a radio interview that many regard as insensitive to victims of that crime.

Clarke had hoped to deliver a deeper cut in prison numbers of up to 6,000 but a crucial part of his penal reform package – his proposal to increase maximum sentence discounts from 33%to50%0% for early guilty pleas – was shelved in the aftermath of the row over rape sentencing.

Agents, owners, the place of football in society, the clear issues all too many around the game still have with young working class men becoming millionaires, the bizarre belief that football is supposed to mitigate the deficiencies in rape sentencing – there is so much that a smart, brave advocate could do with the job.

For example, Clarke at one point asked for a forest of arms on whether the current rape sentencing tariffs are correct, although it seemed unlikely that the old lags' community coming out for lighter incarceration would have helped him much at this juncture.

Quizzed on why rape sentences were on average only five years, he said: "That includes date rape, 17-year-olds having intercourse with 15-year-olds.

He also said Mr. Williams had already finished the rape sentence at the time and had begun serving his consecutive sentence for reckless endangerment, a crime not eligible for civil confinement.

The attacker was sentenced in Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court to four years for the forced marriage, 12 months for bigamy and 12 months for voyeurism to run concurrently with the 16-year rape sentence.

10.49pm: Clarke says he would quite like to see the 12-month rape sentences Victoria Derbyshire referenced on her programme, contending that most sentences for the crime are much longer.

Although the government said she would be released without any conditions, she has come under heavy pressure, including from a judge, to marry Sher Mohammad, who is in another prison in Kabul serving a rape sentence.