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Patrick Dunne was, in some respects, an unlikely policeman. A maths graduate and teacher, he was head of Business Studies at a school in Surrey when, at 41, he applied to join the service.
Farah Naz welcomed plans to allow judges to order offenders to attend sentencing but thinks they should not be physically forced.
Cheryl Korbel, who met with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to hear the news on Wednesday, has hailed the plans after Olivia's killer, Thomas Cashman, refused to appear at court to be jailed for life.
Plans to make criminals attend their sentencing hearings in court are "complex and fraught with danger", the former prison officer father of a murdered police constable has warned.
Former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby became the latest criminal to be sentenced to a whole-life sentence this week, after she was found guilty of murdering seven babies. She joins a list of the country's worst killers and criminals to be handed the punishment.