Rape: Sentencing
(asked on 21st March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of sentence handed down to a person convicted of rape was in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 29th March 2017
The average length of custodial sentence for rape, in England and Wales, from 2011 to 2015, can be found in the ‘Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly: December 2015’ which can be found on Gov.uk.
Rape carries a maximum penalty of a life sentence. Indeterminate sentences such as life sentences are specifically excluded from the average custodial sentence length calculation.