Ten-year sentences for Covid rule-breaking 'utterly ridiculous'
by Jessica Elgot and Matthew Weaver from World news | The Guardian on (#5E12W)
Judges will never impose such long jail terms, say critics, who dismiss plan as misleading spin'
Ministers have been accused of an utterly ridiculous" overreach of power for threatening to impose 10-year jail sentences on travellers dodging quarantine rules.
Jonathan Jones, the government's former top lawyer who resigned earlier this year, tweeted that he would eat a face mask" if the sentence was ever imposed, while Labour's attorney-general called it misleading spin" that would never be enforced.
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