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Home Office to Review Abuse-Linked Convictions, Casey Calls Pardon “Lazy”

6/13/2026

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The Home Office announced it will review criminal convictions that may have been influenced by childhood sexual abuse.
Baroness Louise Casey called the new child-prostitution pardon a “lazy option” that falls short of protecting grooming-gang victims and said a scheme is needed to overturn wrongful convictions, noting victims such as Joanne face legal consequences decades later.
The government has already passed legislation to pardon offences labelled as child prostitution.

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The Home Office announced it will review criminal convictions that may have been influenced by childhood sexual abuse.
Baroness Louise Casey called the new child-prostitution pardon a “lazy option” that falls short of protecting grooming-gang victims and said a scheme is needed to overturn wrongful convictions, noting victims such as Joanne face legal consequences decades later.
The government has already passed legislation to pardon offences labelled as child prostitution.