内容摘要：Last week a court hearing heard Curragh had sent a message to Little-Pengelly via the social media platform X "which conveyed a threat of death or harm".

Last week a court hearing heard Curragh had sent a message to Little-Pengelly via the social media platform X "which conveyed a threat of death or harm".

But His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service estimates it would cost £2.8bn over the next five years to bring the whole estate into a fair condition, more than double its current maintenance expenditure.that prison expansion costs were expected to be at least £4.2bn above original estimates in 2021.

As well as this prisons strategy, the government hopescould be a longer-term solution to reduce demand on prisons.The review of prison sentences is being led by David Gauke, a former Conservative justice secretary.

The review is expected to consider scrapping short sentences and toughening up community orders as an alternative to jail. It will report back next spring.Asked by the Today programme whether some people currently in prison might not be in the future, Mahmood said it was a possibility.

"Yes... We will have to expand the range of punishment available outside of prison, that does mean that we will have more offenders monitored outside," she said.

"But I want to make sure that when we are not putting someone in prison but they're being punished outside, that that is still a punishment they can have confidence in."Otters are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 198, and the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017.

It is a criminal offence to wilfully kill, injure, capture or disturb otters except under licence.Dave Webb, founder of the trust, said of the find in Shropshire: "We sincerely hope that someone has information on this or even has CCTV footage from the area that can be passed to the wildlife crime officers investigating this rural crime."

He added: "Although we’ve unfortunately been called out to some strange and upsetting circumstances in the past, this feels like a new low."This seems to be a planned act of unprecedented cruelty and we will do everything we can to bring the people responsible for this act to justice."