I'm confused the judge has ruled 9 months so does that void any other early release scheme? But anyway yeah, 4 months..
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He will be eligible for release from jail on a tag after serving less than four months of his 18-month sentence under the Government’s early release scheme to tackle the prison overcrowding crisis.
The scheme means he is entitled to automatic release after serving 7.2 months of his sentence. This is because it has moved the release date to require offenders to serve just 40 per cent of their sentence in prison rather than half of it.
Even before the 40 per cent point is reached, offenders can be released half way through their jail time under what is known as a home detention curfew.
This would entitle him to release on home detention curfew – where offenders are tagged under curfews normally of 12 hours from 7pm to 7am in their homes – after serving 20 per cent of his total sentence, or 3.6 months.
Home detention curfew is not, however, an automatic right and can only be granted at the discretion of the governor, who has to decide if the criminal is low risk and unlikely to reoffend.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...empt-of-court/
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