“I’m very cautious about controlling the media because it always leads to something bad – it always leads to misuse of power.,” says Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland in an interview published by the Financial Times.
Judges will hear arguments this morning in a complaint brought by Lorraine Allen, who was convicted in the Uniteed Kingdom of the manslaughter of her four month old son.
When convicted the applicants Douglas Gary Vinter, Jeremy Neville Bamber and Peter Howard Moore, were given whole life orders, meaning they cannot be released other than at the discretion of the Secretary of State on compassionate grounds.
Deborah Glass, Deputy Chair of the United Kingdom’s Independent Police Complaints Commission, believes the country’s experience can help other Council of Europe member states.
Human rights judges have revealed their decisions on complaints brought by prisoners subject to indeterminate sentences of imprisonment for the public protection (“IPP sentences”) in the United Kingdom.
