Year And A Day Rule On Murder

EDM number 1353 in 1994-95, proposed by Alan Milburn on 05/07/1995.

That this House welcomes the Home Affairs Select Committee's and the Law Commission's reports calling for the abolition of the year and a day rule on murder; expresses its concern at the Government's delay in scrapping an outdated law that merely serves to protect the guilty; and believes that the time has come to put the rights of the victims of crime first by introducing immediate legislative proposals for change.

This motion has been signed by a total of 56 MPs.