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British young offenders who brag online could see tougher sentences
The Sentencing Council for England and Wales today proposed an expanded set of guidelines that courts would have to follow when sentencing young offenders aged 10 to 17. Importantly, for the first time, the instructions explicitly mention video, images and other details of the incident deliberately shared through social media and elsewhere online as an "aggravating factor," which could increase the seriousness of an offence and lead to tougher sentences.
