Black offenders more likely to receive sentences for drug offences than white
BLACK and Asian men are more likely to be locked up for drug-dealing offences than white defendants, according to research published by the Sentencing Council today.
The official body looked at penalties received by 14,000 defendants aged 26-50 for possession with intent to supply between April 2012 and March 2015.
It found that for class-B drugs, 37 per cent of white offenders could expect to receive a custodial sentence compared with 46 per cent of Asian, 44 of black and 46 of other ethnicities including Chinese.
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