Cressida Dick, deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, told MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee that the police back plans to introduce mandatory five-year sentences for 17- to 21-year-olds caught with a gun.
She also said the police had expected the five-year sentence introduced for adults in 2003 to apply to 18- to 21-year-olds. She said in 60 per cent of cases where the five-year sentence could be applied, judges are not applying it, sometimes because they say the offenders are too young.
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