Father still trapped in jail 18 years after being given 8-month IPP sentence – for waving a starting pistol

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But The Independent has learned Labour is to turn its back on him – and almost 3,000 other IPP prisoners still languishing in cells – by rejecting a review of indefinite jail terms. open image in gallery Mandy Lawrence wants IPP prisoners, including her son James, to be resentenced These include a string of injustices highlighted by The Independent such as those of Thomas White, who set himself alight after serving more than 12 years for stealing a mobile phone, and Abdullahi Suleman, who has spent 19 years behind bars for a laptop robbery. I think the reason is they think they are going to try to get compensation from the government – and they deserve it.” open image in gallery Mandy Lawrence has called for justice secretary Shabana Mahmood to resentence IPP prisoners, starting with those with the lowest tariffs In 2022, the justice select committee issued recommendations for the then Conservative government to resentence all IPP prisoners, but this was rejected. “But we need to get those IPP prisoners still languishing in prison, for years after the time set by their trial judge, out of prison.