Chris Lynch: Opportunity Party wanted to raise youth justice age to 25....

Opportunity Party wanted to raise youth justice age to 25, now can’t say what the limit should be

The Opportunity Party has scrubbed the age of 25 from a policy proposing a major expansion of New Zealand’s youth justice system.

An archived version of the party’s “Smart on Crime” policy, captured on March 5, explicitly promised to “raise the age of the youth court jurisdiction to 25, in line with developmental science”.