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A Government campaign to recruit more working class and ethnic minority magistrates has failed to break the white, middle class and middle-aged hold on the job, official figures show.
Exclusive: Data analysis shows people severely penalised for relatively minor infractions of coronavirus laws
Concern that cases are no longer being scrutinised
Paul Carberry was convicted in 1979, when aged 16
The Guardian understands that senior managers have been instructing that prosecutions for assaults should be a last resort