Sentencing based on race questioned
A judge has been criticised for handing paedophile Jamal Muhammed Raheem Ul Nasir a longer jail term because his victims were Asian. Campaigners said the decision by the Court of Appeal to back the sentence because the victims’ fathers were concerned about the future marriage prospects for their daughters was wrong. The NSPCC said: “British justice should operate on a level playing field and children need to be protected irrespective of cultural differences.” Peter Saunders, of the National Association of People Abused in Childhood, added: “There cannot be any suggestion that there is a hierarchy of victims. It is wrong to categorise victims like this, no matter what their background is. It is damaging and dangerous
