Today, Zara’s aunt – Farah Naz – met the prisons minister Lord Timpson, and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir ...

When someone refuses to face the court, it can feel as if the scales have tipped away from fairness, away from the people ...

The law is finally being changed to compel criminals to attend sentencing hearings, following numerous scandals and ...

For the first time, judges will be able to hand down prison punishments for criminals who refuse to attend their sentencing hearing under new measures in the Victims and Courts Bill.

Minister Davies-Jones said: I would like to thank the remarkable families of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, Jan Mustafa, Sabina Nessa and Zara Aleena and countless others ... better enabling the family to move ...

Zara Aleena's aunt, Farah Naz, said the family saw McSweeney as 'someone who stamped his pain on to Zara' [PA Media] Powers already exist to compel people to attend court but National Chair of the ...

Families of murdered primary school teacher Sabina Nessa, law graduate Zara Aleena and mother-of-three Jan Mustafa are ... Cheryl Korbel and her family have campaigned to change the law so that ...

"Why put a family through so much pain at the beginning ... Jan Mustafa, Sabina Nessa and Zara Aleena and countless others who have campaigned tirelessly for offenders to have to face the reality ...