Frustrated police officers have hit out on social media at soft knife crime sentences as scores of dangerous offenders walk free from courts.
Officers around the country have criticised judges and magistrates for handing out suspended sentences to knife-wielding thugs at a time of record levels of fatal stabbings.
On Wednesday a tweet about an 18-year-old walking free from court after admitting possession of what police described as a ‘fearsome’ weapon caused astonishment among officers.
Devante Omer, a knife offender who has posed for photographs on social media making gang signs and showing off wads of cash, was handed a six-month suspended sentence after being caught with a knife in Enfield, north London.
Superintendent Roy Smith, of the Metropolitan Police, tweeted: ‘I wonder if this judicial outcome serves as either a deterrent or offers any hope at rehabilitation.’
Last month he said prison sentences of less than six months could be axed because they are ‘simply not working’. Stock image
An officer in Barnet, north London, responded: ‘Suspended sentence! Seriously! Perhaps the courts need to catch up on current affairs!’
Colin Sutton, the retired detective who led the inquiry into Milly Dowler’s killer Levi Bellfield, also criticised the sentence, saying: ‘I am sure there are some who share my view – what is the point?’
He said officers do their very best, but find ‘the system beyond them just doesn’t want to assist’.
Greater Manchester Police officers revealed on Facebook on Tuesday that a teenage yob caught with a samurai sword had escaped jail for a second time.
Officers wrote on the force’s Failsworth and Hollinwood neighbourhood page: ‘A teenage youth from Failsworth who recently appeared at Tameside Magistrates for possessing a meat cleaver in a public place was back in court today.
'He pleaded guilty to having a samurai sword in a public place. The courts revoked his referral order for the last offence and then issued another referral order. Neighbourhood officers are disappointed.’
Police anger comes as Justice Secretary David Gauke is under pressure to water down plans to abolish short sentences amid concerns it could lead to around 4,000 knife criminals a year avoiding jail
The post sparked fury, with more than 100 local people complaining of the ‘diabolical decision’ and saying that knife offenders were ‘laughing at the justice system’.
And British Transport Police said that a thug caught with three knives at Birmingham New Street railway station had been spared jail.
He was arrested with a Rambo knife, a hunting weapon with a ten-inch blade and an even longer kitchen knife, but on Friday he received only a suspended jail term and an eight-week curfew.
Richard Cooke, chairman of West Midlands Police Federation, tweeted: ‘Yet another dangerous knife criminal walks free from court! If this isn’t part of the problem we are kidding ourselves. This is a travesty of justice and makes a mockery of our work fighting the knife crime epidemic.’
Police anger comes as Justice Secretary David Gauke is under pressure to water down plans to abolish short sentences amid concerns it could lead to around 4,000 knife criminals a year avoiding jail.
Last month he said prison sentences of less than six months could be axed because they are ‘simply not working’.
Mr Gauke argued that community penalties should be imposed more often, although he said violent offenders should still face jail.
Now he is examining whether to exempt knife attackers after the Government came under fire for failing to tackle rising knife crime.
There were 285 fatal stabbings in England and Wales in the year to March 2018 – the highest level since records began in 1946. Ministry of Justice figures show that 4,300 offenders – which is 59 per cent of knife criminals in England and Wales – received jail terms of six months or less last year.
A spokesman said: ‘We are considering how to reform short sentences, but we are not going to take away the tools that judges have to impose tough sentences on those involved in knife crime.’
A 19-year-old youth was stabbed in East Dulwich, south-east London, yesterday. He was taken to hospital with serious injuries. No arrests have been made.
The teenagers who are getting away with knife crime: Seven blade-carrying yobs as young as 13 walk free from courts in just one week
Teenagers who carry knives are routinely being spared jail in magistrates’ courts across the country.
There is a minimum six-month prison sentence for adults convicted for the second time of carrying a knife, while youths face at least a four-month detention and training order.
But last week when the Daily Mail attended magistrates’ and youth courts across the UK, repeat offenders regularly escaped jail.
Kyle Davis, 18, was seen outside court smirking and posing for a selfie on the steps of after he was handed a six-month prison sentence suspended
- Birmingham magistrates: Kyle Davis, 18, was seen outside court smirking and posing for a selfie on the steps of after he was handed a six-month prison sentence suspended for two years for his second knife offence. His case was highlighted by the Mail last week.
- Liverpool youth court: A 16-year-old student was given a 12-month referral order for knifing a 15-year-old boy in the hand during a classroom row.
- Highbury Corner youth court, north London: A 16-year-old from Camden, caught twice with kitchen knives, was spared jail despite admitting that he would not comply with his 12-month intensive referral order and three-month curfew.
- Highbury Corner youth court: A 15-year-old boy caught with a lock knife – the second time in less than a year that he had been found with a knife – was given a nine-month referral order.
- Birmingham magistrates: Bailey Bell, 19, was spared jail and given a 12-month community order for carrying an eight-inch carving knife and cannabis around Birmingham city centre.
- Willesden youth court, north-west London: A 13-year-old boy caught with a hunting knife with a ten-inch blade in a McDonald’s restaurant was let off with a 12-month referral order. He had received a caution for bringing a kitchen knife into his school in 2017.
- Guildford youth court, Surrey: A 17-year-old drug dealer caught with a knife and cocaine was given a 12-month youth rehabilitation order. He had a previous conviction for carrying a baton.
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