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@tomhunt1988 When did you last attend a Crown Court, Tom?
@tomhunt1988 I’d also be interested to know your evidence base for the assertion that length of sentence serves as a deterrent.
@tomhunt1988 Finally, as you’re advertising your expertise, can you tell us more about your plans for ending automatic early release? How does it differ from the recent changes? Are you proposing ending early release for all prisoners? What does research say about the effect on reoffending?
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@MissEllieMae Defund the police? As someone who watches victims of sexual and violent crime failed on a daily basis by a justice system that has been cut through the bone, I can tell you with confidence that this is the stupidest thing anyone has said about criminal justice in a long time.
@MissEllieMae The article you are tweeting gives you the context. In the US, spending on police and prisons has soared at the expense of social programmes. In the UK, the justice budget has been cut more than any other area of public life over the last decade.
@MissEllieMae The police have already been defunded, as have the prisons, the CPS, the courts, Probation, legal aid - every element of criminal justice is in crisis. Police investigations take literally years now, and many viable prosecutions still collapse for - yes - lack of basic resources.
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@Joanna__Hardy @BPTC_Lecturer Why do we have bread? Who first thought, “I bet if I grind some wheat and mix it with fungus, water, salt, sugar and butter, whack it around a bit and then heat it in an enclosed space, that will taste good”?
@Joanna__Hardy @BPTC_Lecturer And did that person just happen to get the quantities, the kneading and the baking time perfect on the first attempt? Or did they make an inedible monstrosity, but still think, “I reckon if I just tinker with the amounts and the heat I’m onto a winner”? Either way, what a genius.
@Joanna__Hardy @BPTC_Lecturer This is a serious cooking question, and I expect a full explanation. I just don’t understand the mindset of that irrepressible little bread inventor, filling his cave with piles of misshaped, unrisen and burned trials and errors. What motivated him to keep going?
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This illustrates the importance of legal representation for those accused by the state.

But for this footage, the official state narrative - “tripped & fell” - would have been swallowed whole by many, not least those in my mentions fuming at lawyers offering help to protestors.
This is why, even though it’s sometimes unpopular, we don’t simply accept the truth of an accusation at face value.

Instead we demand an independent criminal investigation, and, equip each other, through legal aid, with the tools to mount a defence.
Inevitably, guilty people will sometimes try to use this to their advantage to evade justice. And it’s frustrating, I know. I prosecute these people. But it’s the trade-off in a system engineered to try to avoid innocents being wrongly accused and convicted by the state machinery
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