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Article: Tories demand life sentences to combat drugs menace
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- March 28, 1999
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DRUG dealers convicted for the second time should be given
mandatory life sentences, the leader of the Scottish Tory party said
yesterday.
In the toughest and most radical stance taken by any political
party on Scotland's drug problem, David McLetchie advocated a 'two
strikes and you're out' sentencing approach to dealers.
His speech will be seen as an attempt to reclaim law and order as
a vote-winner for the Conservatives only 10 days before the formal
opening of the Holyrood election campaign on April 6.
"These are monsters who for their own selfish ends are prepared to
destroy our children, " said McLetchie. "It is they who must be