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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.
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped
