Conservatives vow to end early release scheme
Conservative leader Michael Howard today said that Labour’s early release scheme has led to an additional 4,500 crimes being committed.
Outlining his approach to tackling crime, he pledged to “end Mr Blair’s early release scheme”.
“Over four and a half thousand crimes have been committed by criminals let out early by Mr Blair – and over five hundred of them were violent,” he said during a speech in Rothwell.
“How would you feel if a bloke on early release attacked your daughter?”
Figures contained in a Parliamentary answer show that since the introduction of Home Detention Curfew in 1999, 106,000 prisoners have been released on curfew.
Of these, over 2,000 have re-offended and been responsible for over 4,500 crimes including ten sexual offences, 161 burglaries, and 44 robberies. But under the Tories this would stop, Mr Howard asserted. “There’ll be no more half time sentences for full time crimes,” he said.
