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Act tougher on youth crime, Kinsella's sister tells the PM
Pippa Crerar23 Sep 2008
Actress Brooke Kinsella met Gordon Brown and urged him to do more to tackle knife crime.
Kinsella, whose 16-year-old brother Ben was stabbed to death in Islington in June, told the Prime Minister in a private meeting there should be greater focus on preventing teenage violence.
She pressed for tougher rules so a life sentence would mean life. In an emotional-moment, Kinsella passed a letter to Mr Brown that her brother wrote months ago but never sent. It called for the Prime Minister to do more to tackle the scourge of knife crime. She welcomed the decision to double the penalty for carrying a knife to four years but questioned how many people served the maximum sentence.
Reader views (4)
Most knife crimes are committed by certain racial non-indigenous types of people. The government cannot face up or admit to this as they let most of them into the country. You can only play the race card when you are suing your employer and you must be a certain hue of the multi-culti rainbow that has been brought into being by this government. That stupid soap opera Eastenders has a few token non-whites when in reality the East End is now an Islamic or Ethnic outpost.
- Frederick, London, UK, 24/09/2008 07:48
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They just won`t listen, worried about a few votes they may lose, and forgetting how many they have lost.
- Sandra, London, 23/09/2008 16:12
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Perhaps she could pass the letter onto her old bosses at Eastenders. You know the programme - the one that's on during peak family viewing and glamorises violence. The one she used to star in.
- Chris, Essex, 23/09/2008 10:35
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Good for her. Unfortunately they won't scrap the Human Rights Act so this will never happen. Life should mean life.
- Charlie, London, 23/09/2008 10:23
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