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Treatment Of 17 Year Olds In Police Custody

EDM number 34 in 2013-14, proposed by John Leech on 08/05/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Administration of justice, Children and families and Police.

That this House condemns the exclusion of 17 year olds from the specific protection given to juveniles in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, which remains inconsistent with domestic and international legislation which states that a human is a child until the age of 18 and that 17 year olds in police custody are consequently not provided with an appropriate adult as a matter of course; notes with great sadness the tragic consequences this has had for the Thornber and Lawton family whose 17 year old sons Edward Thornber, who was arrested for the possession of cannabis, and Joe Lawton, arrested for drink driving, committed suicide as a result; and calls on the Government for a change of law so that 17 year olds are treated as children when arrested and in police custody, as requested by a 52,000 signature petition presented to 10 Downing Street on 28 March 2013.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
John Leech08/05/2013Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratProposed
John McDonnell09/05/2013Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley09/05/2013Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn10/05/2013Islington NorthLabourSeconded
George Howarth13/05/2013KnowsleyLabourSeconded
Mark Durkan13/05/2013FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Margaret Ritchie14/05/2013South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Alan Meale14/05/2013MansfieldLabourSigned
Mary Glindon14/05/2013North TynesideLabourSigned
Martin Caton15/05/2013GowerLabourSigned
Steve Rotheram15/05/2013Liverpool, WaltonLabourSigned
David Ward15/05/2013Bradford EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George15/05/2013St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Elfyn Llwyd15/05/2013Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
Lady Hermon15/05/2013North DownIndependentSigned
Caroline Lucas20/05/2013Brighton, PavilionGreenSigned
Mike Hancock20/05/2013Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Valerie Vaz20/05/2013Walsall SouthLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell04/06/2013Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Naomi Long19/06/2013Belfast EastAllianceSigned
George Galloway26/06/2013Bradford WestRespectSigned
Alasdair McDonnell11/09/2013Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned

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