Unduly lenient?

Did the attorney general really have to ask leading criminal barristers for advice?

A minimum term of 52 years in prison to be served by a man who murdered three girls was not “unduly lenient”, the attorney general announced on Friday. For that reason, Lord Hermer KC said he would not be inviting the Court of Appeal to consider increasing the sentences of indefinite detention passed last month on Axel Rudakubana, 18, for three murders …