No power for crackdown
22nd August 1991, Page 8
22nd August 1991
Page 8
Page 8, 22nd August 1991
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Rod Heather.
• The Government is powerless to order tougher jail sentences for truck thieves, Foden managing director Rod Heather has been told.
Heather wrote to the Home Secretary expressing concern at the soft punishments awarded by a Manchester court to three men behind a £3,500 theft ring (CM 27 June-3 July).
According to the Lord Chancellor's department: "The Lord Chancellor's constitutional position precludes him from interfering in the judicial business of the courts."