'People should never be criminalised simply for who they are and who they love.' A scheme to wipe historic convictions for same-sex activity has been expanded, allowing women to apply for the first time.
A scheme to wipe historic convictions for same-sex activity has been expanded, allowing women to apply for the first time.scheme will now allow anyone convicted under any repealed or abolished offences, including more armed forces veterans, to apply.
Until now, only men have been able to apply to have convictions wiped for a specific list offences – focusing on ‘buggery’ and gross indecency between men. The scheme’s expansion means offences such as ‘solicitation by men’, which was used to criminalise behaviour betweenmen which would be considered no more than flirting between a man and a woman, are now included.
More service offences are now included, meaning more veterans who were prosecuted under service law can apply to have those convictions wiped from their records. Rob Cookson from the LGBT Foundation said: ‘People should never be criminalised simply for who they are and who they love.‘It is only right that the disregards and pardons scheme has been widened.’Minister for Safeguarding Sarah Dines said: ‘The appalling criminalisation of homosexuality is a shameful and yet not so distant part of our history.
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