In September 2006, it met this target, even though the total number of cases in court for persistent young offenders in England and Wales had risen by nearly eight per cent.
A year later in September 2007, the average time from arrest to sentence of persistent young offenders was just 62 days, meaning the target set 10 years earlier was exceeded by nine days.
In Magistrates' Courts, which represent 94 per cent of all persistent young offender cases, the average number of days from arrest to sentence fell to 54 in September 2007, a 13 per cent drop from the same time a year before.
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