Compulsory attendance at sentencing

The British govt intends making it mandatory for convicted criminals to attend their sentencing. Do you think there's any point to this? It's proposed after a nurse who killed babies did not attend her sentencing (life in prison).

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Courts already have this power, they are restrained only by the risk of the offender resisting so hard that unreasonable force would be required.