We already have laws criminalising attacks on shop workers.
Sentencing Guidelines already specify that assaulting someone providing a service to the public is an aggravating factor.
Pointless vanity legislating, at a time when criminal justice needs serious political attention.
Sentencing Guidelines already specify that assaulting someone providing a service to the public is an aggravating factor.
Pointless vanity legislating, at a time when criminal justice needs serious political attention.
We don’t need “a stronger, clearer route”, whatever that is. As a prosecutor, what would make my life “easier” isn’t yet more ill-thought-out superfluous legislation, but properly resourced police, CPS & legal aid, and enough courts so that cases don’t wait years to be tried. 
I would also like to see the evidence that this new shiny law would provide “a clear deterrent to those thinking of assaulting shop workers”.
Claiming that a new law is a quick “deterrent” fix to embedded social problems is facile. The public, and shop workers, deserve better.
Claiming that a new law is a quick “deterrent” fix to embedded social problems is facile. The public, and shop workers, deserve better.
