Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on the UK Government potentially barring criminals from travel and concerts as part of new sentencing rules

People convicted of crimes in England and Wales could find themselves barred from going to pubs, concerts and sports matches under proposed new rules.

The Government is looking into making changes to new sentencing rules, which will give the courts more power to enforce bans. 

UK correspondent Gavin Grey explained that these changes could be a deterrent to criminals. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Devin Gray, UK correspondent with US. Now, hey, Gevin, Hi
there Heather. Right, So if you've been convicted of a crime,
is it possible that you might not end up you
might be you might end up being unable to go
to a power, a concert or sports match. This is
what the government are looking at. Yes, So non custodial
terms is the thing, in other words, where a court
imposes a sentence which is in a prison sentence, And

(00:24):
the reforms that the government is looking at here in
the UK are effectively going to give those courts more
power to hand out things like driving and travel bans,
as well as offenders being told to remain in specific areas.
And that could mean yeah, that they can't go driving,
that they can't go abroad traveling, and also that in

(00:47):
certain certain circumstances it's thought that that might be a
ban on pubs, concerts and sports matches, things that matter
to certain people and therefore they will think potentially twice
is the theory about committing a crime. There was a
review of a sentencing policy recently which came out recommending
fewer custodial sentences for less serious offenses. Why we have

(01:12):
got massively overcrowded presidence here, they're simply out of capacity.
So we've already been reporting, haven't we, on how some
prisoners are being released earlier through their sentences, And now
we're getting this idea that fewer people are going to
be sent to prison in the first place. Everyone is
not comfortable with this, but I think you do hear
of a number of people who have been sentenced to prison,

(01:32):
you think is that really the best way to have
dealt with them? So I see France's upset with Charles Koshner. Yeah,
very upset. And this is all over a letter, an
open letter that he wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
It was a letter, an open letter that he wrote
to the French president Emmanuel Macron, in which he basically

(01:55):
criticized France for failing to tackle a surgeon anti Semitism. Now,
of course, the name is very familiar, Charles Kushner. He
is the father of the US Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka,
and sorry, his son is married to Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka.

(02:15):
And Charles Kushner is also the US ambassador to Paris,
and Kushner said there had been an explosion of hatred
towards Jews in France since the war in Gaza began,
and he carried on really criticizing pretty much in this
letter what had been going on, said that he stood
ready to work with Emmanuel Macron and other French leaders

(02:36):
to forge a serious plan to tackle it. In France,
he said, and I quote, not a day passes without
Jews assaulted in the streets, synagogues or schools defaced, or
Jewish owned businesses vandalized. Your own Interior ministry has reported
anti Semitic incidents, even at preschools. And he said it's
not good enough. France isn't doing enough to stop this,

(02:56):
and Macron has got very very upset and annoyed, so
they've summoned the US ambassador for those talks. Be very
interesting to be a fly on the wall. There is
he right or wrong? Well, I'm afraid to say that,
along with the UK and other European countries, we are
seeing a rise in anti Semitic crime owing to the
fact that people are so infuriated about what's happening in Gaza,

(03:20):
and many do not believe the Israeli States official verdict
of the getting food supplies in and that said, our
France doing enough, you know, It's one of those things
that is very difficult, isn't it, to try and stamp
out and stop. But the idea that I think France
is doing nothing is very unfair. It's possible that they

(03:42):
just perhaps aren't putting enough effort into finding those responsible
for some of these incidents of vandalism. Yeah, hey, thank
you very much Kevin for running us through that. It's
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