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Anyone suspected of having committed an extremely serious offence, such as murder, can be held without charge for a maximum of 4 days. Police can already detain people under anti-terrorism legislation for seven times as long (28 days). Prolonged detention without charge or trial undermines fair trial rights, including the right to be promptly informed of any charges, the right to be free from arbitrary detention and the presumption of innocence.

Everybody arrested is entitled to be charged promptly and tried within a reasonable time, in proceedings that fully comply with fair trial standards, or to be released. The UK already has by far the longest period of pre-charge detention of any Common Law country. Any further extension of pre-charge detention risks being counterproductive, damaging community relations and undermining the UK’s moral authority around the world.

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• Carole Smith
• Laura Orger
• Angie Mindel
• George Mackie
• Anna Shadbolt
• Natalia Nowakowska
• Miriam Andrews
• Debra Levy
• Rhys Williams
• Iain Russell
• Sabrina Mahtani
• Simon Kaye
• james king
• John Chattaway
• Elliott Baker
• Monica Steuerman
• Andrew Unick
• Katherine Baldwin
• Nigel Tart
• Claire Digance
• Derek William Allen
• Carles Morros
• Samuel Stone
• Anne Filcek
• Kenneth Barry Harper
• Susan Glanville
• Georgina Closs
• Rosie Sadgrove
• Sir Edward Clay
• Andrea J Chee
• Christopher Tollick
• Richard Sherwin
• Robin Barer
• Joan Lawson
• Andrew Stern
• tony martin
• John Hamilton
• Elaine Vignoli
• Marc d'Abbadie
• Arpita Dutt
• Ian MacNaughton
• ellena kealy
• Jesse Roberts
• Gavin Carey
• Karen Jonason
• Arnab Dutt
• Graham Wilkinson
• Jessica Bass
• Debaleena Dasgupta
• Joanna Borrett
• Dan Rosenberg
• Catherine Robinson
• Marlowe Russell
• John Ridler
• Helena Poldervaart
• Valerie Greenfield
• Sophie Freeman
• Rachel Kamm
• Dr. Anja Johansen
• Stephen Hewitt
• Graham Rowan
• Michael Baldwin
• Helen Sherwood-Taylor
• Ann Mallaby
• Anna Cave
• John Launder
• Rachel Drain
• Stephen Cox
• Adrian Sell
• Anna Morris
• Jonathan Clark
• Andy Stone
• Robert Watson
• Adam Hansen
• Angela Bate
• odilia jarman
• Matt Archibald
• Natalie Corfield
• Jennifer Welsh
• Gerard O'Hare
• Alison Noble
• David Owen Hallett
• Terry Noble
• Isabelle Ellis-Cockcroft
• roger lyndhurst thomas
• Rob Goodwin
• Anji Capes
• Ruth Bush
• Roger Drury
• Gordon Dove
• Marina Isaac
• Benjamin Smith
• Frances Hall
• Gul Khan
• RENU MARLEY
• Iain Broadway
• Jeremy Anderson
• Alan Law
• Chris Catchpole
• Adam Stritten
• Jeff Melnyk
• Antonia Stewart
• Alan Kinsella
• Liz James
• Thomas Hannen
• John Amos
• Nathan Dimmock
• Caspar Will
• Rachel Cooper
• tom maryon
• Peter Walley
• James Hobro
• Stephen Rymill
• Brendan McMahon
• Dora Steel
• Alan Reilly
• mohammed khan
• Zarif Khan
• Marcus Tucker
• Simon Shimbles
• Ashley Wilson
• Louise Wayham
• Oliver Holliday
• Margi Levy
• Daniel Carins
• Alan Henry Ward
• Jennifer Jamieson
• Kirsty Ross
• emma lucas
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• Charles Randell
• Joachim Schimpf
• Sarah Hall
• Patrick O'Malley
• Euan McGrath
• Adam Reilly
• Pedro Nuno Pereira Rodrigues
• Eve Friday
• Sam Forster
• Gavin Thomson
• Christopher Hopper
• Alex Hope
• toby rodgers
• Ken Brown
• Benjamin Rau
• Denise Ellerman
• Leonie Mark
• Hans Jurgen Wittig
• David Cordingley
• Matt Killeen
• Sian Mycock
• Rosanna Bienzobas
• Veronica Reeve
• Geoffrey Tann
• Sheila Royce
• G Lenain
• Melanie Johnson
• Karen Doherty
• Dr Iqbal Mohiuddin
• Joanne Calder
• Lorraine Valenzuela
• Vildan Aydin
• Taylor Small
• Peter Broadley
• Peter Greenrod
• Jack Lawrence
• Oliver Muller
• Galfrid Congreve
• Victoria Pogge von Strandmann
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• Jake Pace Lawrie
• Wendy McCredie
• John Glen
• Mark Round
• Anna Beria
• luke cordingley
• Janet Leyshon
• David A Smith
• evgueni boiko
• Karen Abbott
• Jeremy Newman
• marie gemmell
• John McGlade
• caroline martin
• Elizabeth Rimmington
• Adam Brouard
• david turner
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• Ewelina Zur
• Stephe Meloy
• Simon White
• Jeanette Scott
• Sara Cutting
• Barry Marsh
• James palmer
• Rachel Bingham
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• Patrick Deshpande
• David Reid
• lisa evans
• suzie clemas-howard
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• Catriona Pennell
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• deborah marsh
• Michael Cox
• Malcolm Green
• samuel
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• Lorna Jones
• Tracy Hunter
• Thomas Morgan
• wendy kirk
• Martin Knight
• Nadine Clarke
• Alison Chapman
• Jim Masson
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• Sarah Horsley
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• gary clarke
• Radoslaw Maciaszek
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• Terry Tozer
• Jessica Atkinson
• Heather Fielding
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• leonard taylor
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• Margot Hudson
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• Anne Noble
• Jacinta Gregory
• helen i. barrett
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• Rebecca Davies
• Sion Thomas Markham
• Helen Bennett
• Margaret Dempsey
• Rachel Camt
• Elizabeth Elkind
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• nicky reynolds
• lucy foster
• carol falaki
• Claire Toche
• Stephen Alder
• Richard Atkinson
• Andrew Holland
• Daniel Greenhalgh
• David Kennedy
• Viviane Blanchard
• Miles Newman
• Dan Kiernan
• Christine Jardine
• Paul Quinn
• Rupert Clarke
• Lisa Paton
• Pádraig MacDaibhéid
• Dawn M Tate
• James Read
• Malcolm Mudie
• Karen Moore
• Peter Weller
• Daniel Bye
• Michael D West
• izzy ni ghraidm
• Elizabeth Whitney
• Rebecca Sparling
• Joanna McMahon
• Julian Bolitho
• Paul Gore
• Matthew Harding
• Chris Gill
• Jeremy Kelsall
• jJayne Adkins
• Clare Hobro
• Sue Broughton
• Rosemary G Finney
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• Shirley Rojas
• Lynne Donaldson
• Elizabeth Speake
• Tim Bell
• Rachel Deeley
• Charlotte Crumbleholme
• Joy Cook
• T Whyte
• Mark Stevenson
• Tim Hart
• Linda Duckenfield
• Dr lesley Forrest
• Robert Glare J.P,
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• Sophy Henn
• david howlett
• Keith Golder
• Ashley Darby
• Deborah Goodall
• Alastair Condie
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• Frances Kells
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• jon travis
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• Linda Spurdle
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• Aude Van Ryn
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• diana wallace
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• Linda Clarke
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• Elaine Ray
• Stephen Law
• hollie higgins
• Susan Moffat
• Owen B. Thomas
• Malcolm Woodcock
• Dr Iain Donaldson
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• Joe Fidler
• SARA AZIZ
• louise harris
• Eleanor Genevier
• Gareth Richards
• AE
• Lucy McNally
• Eurig Scandrett
• Ugesh Naidoo
• Mary Hallam
• John Shaddock
• kevin ratcliffe
• Aaron Kiely
• David King
• Damian O'Loan
• susan carter
• Jane Cluley
• ISOBEL STOKES
• Jane Matthews
• Kieran Hudson
• David Edmunds
• Tvrtko Ursulin
• Emma Fenn
• Charlotte Dibben
• Leigh Silvester
• Wanda Elliot
• Serena Oliver
• Una Rudman
• Kate Pidgeon
• Andrew Lowton
• Ronan McFadden
• Sheila Paine
• Richard Corfield
• Nic Partos
• Ian Stamp
• Laura Babb
• Rebekah Hall
• Rose McAfee
• josie newton
• Emma Lineham
• Naomi Junnor
• James Hunt
• Tim Smaldon
• amarjit pibial
• Hugh Tanton
• Katie Leach
• nigel tink
• paul braid
• Paul Moriarty
• Catriona Nicholson
• David Thomas Charnock
• Denys Janes
• Katie Ewing
• Sarah Jeffreys
• John Rooney
• daniel weadley
• Clea Langton
• Josefine Jideström
• Patricia O'Neill
• Sharon Ingram
• Rob Butcher
• Rick Padfield
• Luke Ryder
• Cathy Tailby
• Julia Modern
• Nick Edwards
• Kate Priest
• Bragi Haraldsson
• Paul Chaplin
• Calum Mackenzie
• Jon Williams
• Kieran Rowley
• Revd Robert Watt
• Iain Stewart
• Revd Kenneth Macaulay
• Declan Ramsey
• Patricia Clinton
• Keirstan Pawson
• Adam Cass
• Hamish Leiper
• Barbara Barnes
• Isla Cruden
• Alex Shutt
• Morag
• Muriel Barlow
• John Chapman
• Alasdair Galloway
• Elizabeth Harris
• Noel Bourke
• Mark T Fowler
• Antony Lewis
• Peter Jones
• Darren Martin
• Jonathon Staples
• Harry Pay
• Nicola Clay
• Dennis Timms
• Chris Fuse
• Valerie Egan
• colin burdett
• Nicola Cunningham
• Linda Jubb
• Eve Doherty
• Linda Niven
• Hannah Draper
• Jonathan Taylor
• Andrew Lawe
• Stephen Moore
• Paul McIntyre
• c bates
• kate langton
• paul armstrong
• Malcolm Laydon
• Emilie Barr
• Mark Downing
• Sally Everett
• Dr Brian Hughes
• Kirsty Burnet
• Tanya Little
• Ms. F. Beattie
• Andrew Naylor
• Amanda Hannaway
• Etienne de Klerk
• Tracy Liddle
• Sinead Coll
• Paul Qureshi
• Fiona Rushton
• Sean Maxwell
• Peter Reid
• Brendan Connoilly
• David E Warhurst
• claire howard
• Erica Marfell
• Luke Gibbons
• Jonathan Uttley
• Ian MacKinnon

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