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Closed Introduce minimum sentence of 5 years for sexual offences and ban appeals

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Require that anyone who commits an offence relating anything sexual, including photos, gets an automatic prison sentence of a minimum of 5 years if found guilty. There should be no right to appeal.

Victims of sexual offences often don’t ever get over what’s happened to them and it does ruin lives. They have to live with it for the rest of their lives.

Children are supposed to be protected by adults. Child victims have no choice and this can cause serious, life-changing trauma.

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