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Victims of violent crime are to have their compensation slashed if they have previously committed minor offences such as speeding.
Individual payments to assault and rape victims will be reduced by up to £37,500 as part of a £25million public- spending cuts programme ordered by the Government, it was claimed last night.
Five million motorists could be affected - with magistrates fining up to a million drivers in a year and their convictions becoming 'spent' only after five years.
The Tories have launched an attack on the 'revolting' move.
Shadow Justice Secretary Dominic Grieve said: 'People will be astonished that Ministers are targeting victims of crime simply because they may have committed minor traffic violations - for which they have already paid the penalty - while prisoners released early are being given compensation for the food and accommodation they would have received free.
'The idea that a rape victim or the parents of a murdered child should have their compensation docked for a speeding conviction years earlier is a revolting proposition.
'Labour is cutting compensation for victims of crime by £25million while spending millions of pounds on spin and bureaucracy.'
The news is bound to fuel fresh claims that motorists, who have faced huge increases in petrol tax and the widespread use of speed cameras, are being unfairly targeted again by Labour.

The move follows changes to payments by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) which gives money to people physically or mentally harmed through being innocent victims of violent crime.
In the past, such payments could be reduced where 'the applicant's character as shown by his criminal convictions makes it inappropriate that a full award or any award should be made'.
But this did not apply to people involved in minor offences such as speeding or other traffic violations.
Deductions are made under a penalty points system which has meant that until now compensation has been paid in full to crime victims who have been fined less than £250 or received a conditional discharge - or been fined more than £250, if that was more than two years previously.
Enlarge Under the new rules, a deduction must be made for any unspent convictions, including motoring offences, 'unless there are exceptional circumstances'.
Motoring offenders' compensation payments will be cut by between ten and 25 per cent - the same reductions that apply to hardened criminals.
In 2006, 857,000 fines averaging £142 were imposed in magistrates courts for driving offences.
They included 152,461 for speeding (average fine £121), 26,043 for failing to obey traffic directions (£95), 23,374 for careless driving (£159), 5,820 for parking offences (£65), 5,009 for lighting offences (£60) and 666 for noise nuisance (£66).
In the cases of murder victims, the rule applies to the deceased and any applicant for compensation.
So the amount paid to the parent of a murdered child will be reduced if the parent has been fined for a motoring offence in the past five years.
If the murder victim had been fined for a motoring offence, the amount payable to his children would also be reduced by the same proportion.
That reduction would be between £1,100 and £1,650, depending on how long had passed since the conviction, with a further deduction of between ten and 15 per cent from the sum paid to cover the victim's funeral expenses.
The Conservatives claim the cut is hidden in the small print of the CICA's business plan. They say it shows that its budget for compensation payments to victims of violent crime will fall by £5million this year, rolling on with a further £15million next year - a total of £25million in two years.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman confirmed that the changes in compensation payments would affect motorists convicted of minor offences - but denied it was unfair and insisted the budget was not being cut.
'The UK's Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme is one of the most generous and comprehensive in the world. Each application will continue to be judged on a case-by-case basis,' he said.
'We need to recognise that compensation is paid with taxpayers' money and this has always been taken into account when compensating those who have already cost the public purse.'