So – good! The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, is going to take a look at the sentencing for the Baby P case – and may then lodge an appeal over them being too lenient.

With an ‘indeterminate’ sentence – it does mean that it could be forever. But with the minimum sentence length given out, it could mean – say – that the mother would be out in five years – which would be a travesty of justice. Once she or the others have served their minimum sentence, it’s up to the Parole Board to decide whether to release any of them at any point in time – but just because we have that safeguard doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be minimum lengths of sentence which they will definitely serve and which reflect the horror of what happened.