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UK: Baker Criticised

01 January 1992

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In a High Court ruling on 17th December, the Home Secretary Kenneth Baker was criticised for refusing to consider all the necessary factors in refusing a release date for Robert Walsh, one of three life sentence prisoners still held for their part in an IRA bombing campaign in Britain in 1973. Walsh's case was that Baker's failure to set a release date was unfair and that it implied that he had to serve at least 20 years to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence. Baker was ordered to reconsider the case immediately because he had not taken account of the fact that others involved in the case had been released and therefore had appeared to serve the right tariff.

Irish News, 17.12.91; Guardian, 17.12.91.

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