Cameron pledge on jail sentences to mother of murdered youth

Mr Cameron told Lorraine Fraser, whose son Tyrone Clarke was killed at the age of 16 by a gang in a Leeds street six years ago, that part of the National Sentence Review will include an assessment of the effect short sentences and early release of the culprits can have on those they have harmed.

During a private meeting at 10 Downing Street yesterday the Prime Minister assured Mrs Fraser that jail tariff limits would also be looked at, and promised to speak the High Commissioner of Pakistan regarding the hunt for one her son's suspected attackers who is understood to have fled there.

Since her son's murder in 2004 Mrs Fraser has been an active campaigner on the issue of knife crime and is now fighting a new battle over one of Tyrone's killers, Liaquat Ali, who is appealing for early release.

Ali was given a life term with a minimum tariff of nine years in March 2005. He wants this minimum term reduced to five years.

Mrs Fraser was given the chance to meet the Prime Minister by her constituency MP Stuart Andrew, Tory MP for Pudsey, who took an interest in her case during the General Election.

Speaking to the Yorkshire Post afterwards Mrs Fraser said: "The meeting went really well and he was really nice to me. He asked me questions too, about my well-being and my daughter's well-being.

"He agreed that we needed to look at the issues and he agreed that it is a big problem. He said that he felt there was a big problem with knife crime.

"I think I am starting to get the message across. Certainly I have been able to speak to the Prime Minister. We have a new Government, hopefully he will deliver."

Mrs Fraser was also given assurances that the hunt for another of Tyrone's suspected attackers would be stepped up, Mr Cameron also saying he would speak to the Foreign Office on the matter.

She added: "Hopefully this will get things moving and we can get him brought to justice. I want him brought back and won't stop until he is."

Mrs Fraser has previously spoken of how she and her daughter are terrified that Ali could be released as early as this year. She added that Mr cameron signed her autograph book and wrote her a personalised note.

Mr Andrew said: "I am delighted and thrilled that the Prime Minister has met her. He was very interested in what she had been through and was moved by her account."

As well as meeting with the Mr Cameron, Mrs Fraser met Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee.