MORE victims are being allowed to review court sentences - but a Bury MP has suggested the system could help people who have been stalked.

In Parliament last Thursday, the Attorney General Jeremy Wright said the number of sentences considered under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme had soared by 108 per cent since 2010, from 342 to 713 requests in 2015.updated MPs about the success of the Unduly Lenient Sentence Scheme, which allows victims of crime to ask the authorities to review the sentence of their attackers if they believe it was lenient.

Mr Wright said: “The number of sentences considered by my office under the unduly lenient sentence scheme has increased by over 108 per cent since 2010, from 342 to 713 requests in 2015.

“Of those, 136 were referred to the Court of Appeal as potentially unduly lenient, with the court agreeing to increase the original sentence for 102 offenders.”Those 102 incidents included murder or manslaughter, robbery and sexual offences.

Bury North MP David Nuttall asked: “Stalking causes enormous harm and distress to victims, and the Government have rightly strengthened the law in this area.

“Will (Mr Wright) consider extending the unduly lenient sentence scheme to cover these crimes?”

Mr Wright said: “(Mr Nuttall) will know that, as a party, we (the Conservatives) have a manifesto commitment to extend the unduly lenient sentence scheme.

“A number of offences are surprisingly not included in the scheme at the moment.

“We need to look carefully at the whole range of criminal offences to decide what should be inside and what should be outside the scheme.” but he certainly makes a good case for the types of offences we might consider including in the future.”