Rapist has Minimum Jail Term Halved After Appeal

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POLITICIANS and campaigners for rape victims have reacted angrily after appeal judges halved the minimum sentence to be served by a "sickening and evil" rapist.

Rape Crisis Scotland was joined by all the main opposition parties in criticising the decision to reduce the sentence being served by Robert Foye, 32, who raped a schoolgirl in woods in North Lanarkshire in 2007. He was on the run from an open prison where he was serving time for attempting to kill a policeman.

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Rapist has Minimum Jail Term Halved After Appeal

Foye - together with paedophile Morris Petch - helped change the way courts calculate how long prisoners given life sentences must wait before they can ask the parole boa...

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