Essex crime writer Terry Smith has issued a Judicial Review against the Ministry of Justice to review how IPP sentences are administered. Smith, who was controversially convicted and sentenced in 2010 after a failed trial resulting in the Jury refusing to convict, to an ‘Indeterminate Public Protection’ sentence with a minimum of 12 years, contends in his Judicial Review that those who have committed murder when they were under 18 have had their release mechanism criteria changed from the established test of ‘what risk to the public is posed’ to a more defining test of ‘what progress has been made.’…
