
Question time with PM
Amy Newlove, 14, fought back tears as she put the Prime Minister on the spot on what would have been her father Garry's 50th birthdayHis murder in August 2007 led to a national debate about teenage violence and binge-drinking.
Amy, who was then aged 12 and witnessed the attack, welled up with tears and had to compose
The teenager, in the audience with her mother, Helen, said it was wrong that the people who murdered her father were given life sentences but also a minimum tariff setting out the number of years they will serve.
'Every day I cry all day. It is hard for me as I was only 12 when I witnessed my dad's murder. It hurts me to see my family go through that,' she said.
'Isn't it about time you made sure the law and sentences were a lot tougher?'
Mr Brown said her father was a brave and courageous man but said sentences had got tougher under Labour.
'We, the Government, don't tell judges what sentence to impose but we have given judges the power and courts the power to have indefinite sentences so people can be in prison indefinitely.




