
This is just appalling as a concept. Clarke is advocating a crazy system where criminals who are subject to vengeful families will be sentenced differently to criminals who have committed an identical offence but face up to those willing to forgive. After all the 'guidelines nonsense' over decades designed to homogenise sentencing in different courts - we get this!
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