Family of dad given controversial sentence ‘devastated’ after government rejection

Thomas White, from Bury, was given a Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence in 2012 after robbing a mobile phone.

IPPs were a type of indeterminate sentence courts could impose after being introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2003.

Thomas, who is said to have a history of committing petty crimes, was ordered to serve a minimum of two years, only a few months before IPPs were abolished.

The dad-of-one, now…