Campaigners hailed a Government promise of new legislation to force serious offenders to attend court.
The families of victims of serious offenders are “delighted” with plans to give judges the power to order serious offenders to attend sentencing hearings.
Ms Nessa was murdered in 2021 by Koci Selamaj as she walked through a park in South East London. He refused to appear in court for his sentence of life in prison. Cheryl Korbel has been among those campaigning for a change in the law to force criminals to appear in court after Thomas Cashman, who shot Olivia after chasing a fellow drug dealer into her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, refused to come up to the dock when he was sentenced to a minimum of 42 years.
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