Dr Faye Davies

Hashi Mohamed calls out Conservative MP Kieran Mullan, "Using extreme examples and the rhetoric that you're using to try and inject that kind of extreme example into what should be a rational debate does not help anyone" #BBCQT "We should never allow some of the serious offenders in our prisons to ever walk our streets" "What this is about. We currently have 87,000 people in our prions. We have a broken criminal justice system. The police are swamped. The solicitors trying to visit you in your cell can't cope. The barristers are not getting paid enough to be there. The buildings that we call our court rooms are falling apart. The judges don't have enough time to be hearing these cases: "The prisons are full of people waiting for their trials to happen who have yet to be found guilty. By the time they get to their hearing 2 or 3 years later they probably spent more time in prison than they got in their sentencing" "And even after the've been proven guilty or pleaded guilty, the moment they come out the probation system is broken" "And I wonder who we should turn to to tell us how that happened" - looking squarely at Conservative MP Kieran Mullan for the 14 years of Conservative austerity "The answer to this fixing the criminal justice system so we actually have a system that works"