A FURIOUS MP has called for a review of an Appeal Court decision to cut the sentence of a paedophile who filmed himself raping a schoolboy.
Labour's Lindsay Hoyle told the Commons that the original sentence was too lenient and that reducing it further had devastated the boy's parents.
Paul O'Brien, aged 41, of Tonge Moor, was given an indeterminate sentence last June after admitting a catalogue of sex offences against the eight-year-old. He was ordered to serve a minimum of six years, but following an appeal, judges varied the sentence to allow him to apply for parole after five years.
Mr Hoyle has already written to the Lord Chief Justice - the country's top judge - to demand that the case be reconsidered. The Chorley MP said in the Commons yesterday: "I find that the sentence was too lenient in the beginning for such a hideous and sickening crime. The parents quite rightly are very upset.
"Surely the time has now come for the public to understand the sentencing system and that actually the victims are put first rather than the perpetrators?"
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