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February 3rd, 2012 
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Ken Clarke wants to slash the time period before convictions become ‘spent’ to help get criminals back to work
- Government admits changes could expose some employers to ‘greater risk of harm through re-offending’
By
Jack Doyle
Last updated at 8:51 AM on 3rd February 2012
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke will also slash the time period before convictions become ‘spent’
Hundreds of thousands of criminals will have their convictions wiped under ‘rehabilitation’ plans revealed last night.
Rapists, paedophiles and even some killers will overnight be relieved of any obligation to declare their crimes when applying for a job.
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke will also slash the time period before convictions become ‘spent’, to help criminals get back into work.
Yesterday ministers said it was right that criminals had a ‘fair chance of getting back on the straight and narrow’.
The Government admitted the changes could expose some employers to ‘greater risk of harm through their re-offending’. But it insisted the risk was ‘small’ because reoffending rates decline sharply within a few years of release.
Previously, anyone given a jail sentence of more than two and a half years would have to declare their offence to prospective employers for the rest of their lives.
From next year, that will apply only to those given a sentence of more than four years – meaning many more serious offenders will be able to declare themselves ‘clean’ after a period of time has elapsed.
Serious offenders with a sentence of between 30 months and four years will no longer have to declare their convictions after seven years. This will include some killers with manslaughter convictions, as well as rapists and paedophiles.
Sentences of between six months and 30 months – the kind given to violent thugs and drug dealers – will expire after four years instead of the current ten.
And those given up to six months in jail, which can include burglars, will be clear after two years instead of seven.
But the time periods will be calculated from the end of the sentence, instead of the date of conviction as is currently the case.
Rapists, paedophiles and even some killers will overnight be relieved of any obligation to declare their crimes when applying for a job
Court fines will be expunged after one year rather than five, and the same will apply to community sentences.
The
rules will also be retrospective, meaning criminals who committed
serious crimes in the distant past will benefit immediately.
Last
night David Green, director of the Civitas think-tank, said: ‘There are
some employers who are willing to give people a second chance and
that’s a good thing. But it’s better if they know they have a doubtful
history.
‘By spending
convictions rapidly you are deceiving people. These days no one gets put
in prison unless they have done something pretty bad. I think this is
sending the wrong message.’
THIS SEX ATTACKER JAILED FOR FOUR YEARS WOULD BENEFIT
Jailed: Muhammed Tayyab sexually assaulted a teenager and punched her in the face
Muhammed Tayyab sexually assaulted a teenager and punched her in the face in an ordeal lasting nearly an hour.
The 38-year-old was jailed for four years last November, but under the new rules he would have his conviction wiped seven years after the end of his sentence. Currently he would have to declare the conviction to prospective employers for the rest of his life.
Tayyab grabbed the 19-year-old after she left her friends in a bar and pulled her into a recess on Blackpool Promenade. The 45-minute attack in the early hours of May 6 last year only came to an end when the woman was able to remove his hand from her mouth and begin screaming, alerting three passers-by.
Police said CCTV showed Tayyab hanging around outside the bar waiting for his victim, then following her when she left. Officers said he picked the woman, who was celebrating a friend’s birthday, because she was drunk and vulnerable.
Tayyab admitted the offence at Preston Crown Court and was ordered to serve four years for the sexual assault, with a four-month sentence for the punch in the face to be served concurrently.
Detective Constable Alan Quanbrough, from Blackpool CID, described the assault as ‘particularly nasty and violent’.
‘It was only by luck three men walked past and the victim was eventually able to get away,’ he added. ‘She was able to scream and Tayyab’s prolonged attack was interrupted.’
Police were able to track down the attacker because he was wearing his work name badge at the time of the assault.
The victim, who was visiting from Manchester for a couple of nights, was left bruised and shaken after the attack.
Officials insisted that indeterminate sentences for public protection would never be spent, nor would new extended sentences for the most serious sexual and violent crimes.
Once a conviction is spent, employers cannot refuse to give an applicant a job or dismiss an employee because of it.
Spent convictions will no longer show up in a basic Criminal Records Bureau check. But offenders will have to declare them when applying to work in schools, prisons or other ‘sensitive’ environments.
Justice Minister Lord McNally said: ‘First and foremost, criminals must be suitably punished for their crimes. But it is no good for anyone if they go to jail and come out and then can’t get an honest job and so turn back to crime again.’
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The state really doesnt want all the bother and expense of locking people up for long periods and then having to look after them when they get out. Far better to give them short sentences and get them back on the streets as quickly as possible. A total abdication of responsibility for protecting the public. Unforgivable.
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Will our Ken be reducing the punishment for perjury in the coming month or so?
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Well at this rate we might as well all start knocking off anyone we don’t like anymore!
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If the risk is so small, let Clarke hire them for his offices. Twits.
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My what a large head for such a tiny brain.
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Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime!
That was the joke slogan doing the rounds of the last Labour Government now being perpetuated by this Government.
They’re not tough on anything where crime is concerned and as for that clown Ken Clarke, you couldn’t make him up if you tried. Totally unfit for purpose.
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Clark couldn’t do more for criminals if they were paying him. He’s definitely past his cell – by date and unfit for purpose.
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Dan, middle-o-nowhere, 3/2/2012 14:00 HA HA I notice the irony escapes you but I am glad my intended grammatical sarcasm didn’t…Thank you also for proving my original point with regards to disclosures…As an employer would you employ a person with a criminal record? You have made it quite clear that Liverpool people offend you but I am sure all your employees love you…off you go back to nowhere.
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Presumably Ken is also going to create some industry first cos’ there are, according to ‘Trust Me Dave’, 400,000 apprenticeships being served ( six months what a joke ) and these enthusiastic newly qualified ? will also need jobs to go to and there are over 2.5 million already in the dole queues.
Someone in government is either telling porkies or their very expensive public school education was a waste of money. Look at the total number of people they are trying to force into non existent jobs.
Do your maths Ken.
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@ John ~ driving a speeding car is no better than walking around with a loaded submachine gun – why shouldn’t people who do that be held responsible for their actions. For everyone else…. GOSH you law abiding persons sure as hell want to KILL a lot of people yourselves, how does that add up. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
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