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Morning Call: 27/02/2014

27/02/2014

BBC Radio Scotland - Morning Call, 27/02/2014

Are whole-life sentences the best way of dealing with Lee Rigby's killers?

Louise White asks whether whole-life sentences are the best way of dealing with Lee Rigby's killers.

Michael Adebolajo has been given a whole-life term and Michael Adebowale has been jailed for a minimum of 45 years for murdering Fusilier Lee Rigby.
Counsel for Michael Adebowale, Abbas Lakha QC, told the court the killing was "horrific" but was not a case "where the offending is so exceptionally high that Mr Adebowale must be kept in prison for his life".
He said: "The right and proper sentence is one which does leave open the possibility of release in the future. Any other sentence would be inhuman."

Louise asks: Are whole-life sentences the best way of dealing with Lee Rigby's killers?

Many people are diagnosed as "dyslexic" either in childhood - or even as an adult - because they have trouble mastering the skill of reading. But now an academic says the use of the label should be ditched because it's "unscientific" and "lacks meaning".

Professor Julian Elliott - from Durham University - says parents are being "woefully misled" about the value of a dyslexia diagnosis. The Charity Dyslexia Action, though, says that's not the case and that it's not "wasteful" to try and understand the different reasons why different people struggle to read.

Louise asks: Are educational labels like dyslexia helpful or misleading?

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