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Warrants for defendants skipping court in England and Wales up 50% since 2020
Former justice secretary Alex Chalk says figures obtained by Channel 4 reveal that current situation is a ‘horror show’ Almost 60,000 arrest warrants were issued for defendants who skipped court in England and Wales last year, up nearly 50% since 2020 in further evidence of the “horror show” in the criminal justice system. The figures, obtained in an investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches to air on Friday 29 May, also show that more than 30,000 failure-to-appear warrants are outstanding, meani…
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