Row on asylum children detention – BBC News
“The UK government’s treatment of the children of asylum seekers in detention is ‘abusive’ and ‘dehumanising’, it has been claimed.”
BBC News, 8th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Month: March 2009
No inquiry into couple’s assisted suicide – The Guardian
“Police are not investigating the deaths of the husband and wife who became the first terminally ill British couple to be helped to die together in Switzerland, it emerged yesterday.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Teenage criminals committing repeated crimes because of drug habit could get single caution – Daily Telegraph
“Teenage criminals who commit repeated crimes because of a drug habit could get only a single caution to cover all their offences under new Government rules.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Care failings blamed for stabbing spree – The Guardian
“An independent inquiry into the treatment of a man with paranoid schizophrenia who randomly stabbed six people, killing one, has condemned the care he had before the attacks and found that a nurse had altered notes relating to his case.”
The Guardian, 9th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Register plan for domestic abuse – BBC News
“A register of people who have attacked their partners could help prevent other potential victims of domestic abuse, the government has said.”
BBC News, 8th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Account of detainee’s alleged torture passed to high court – The Guardian
“A graphic account by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed of his alleged torture during interrogation sessions has been passed to the high court.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Rural speed limits may be reduced to 50mph – The Independent
“Speed limits on most single-carriageway roads in rural areas could be cut from 60mph to 50mph under a Government plan to cut the number of deaths in car accidents.”
The Independent, 9th March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Human rights challenge to MoD due – BBC News
“The government’s human rights watchdog will take on the MoD in a test case later which could extend human rights law to soldiers on battlefields abroad.”
BBC News, 9th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
IPCC to investigate police handling of murder of Katie Summers by ex-boyfriend Brian Taylor – Daily Telegraph
“The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to examine events leading up to the 24-year-old’s death at the hands of Brian Taylor in October amid claims that officers could have been prevented it.”
The Telegraph, 9th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Calls for government to answer torture claims – The Guardian
“New revelations by Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed, claiming that British intelligence played a central role in his torture and interrogation, must be answered by the government, the former shadow home secretary David Davis said last night.”
The Guardian, 8th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Prisoners paid £5m compensation for early release – Daily Telegraph
“Criminals released early from prison under a scheme to end overcrowding have been paid more than £5 million in compensation, official figures show.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Cool heads: meet ten lawyers thriving despite the recession – The Times
“As big firms cut hundreds of transactional lawyers, some have never been busier.”
The Times, 9th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Is this Britain’s most successful prison? – The Independent
“HMP Grendon is a prison with a mission, a unique high-security facility where inmates face up to their crimes through group therapy, role-playing and psychoanalysis. And studies show this pioneering approach to rehabilitation produces extraordinary results.”
The Independent, 7th March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Offenders tell of court delay woe – BBC News
“Victims and witnesses face long delays in criminal trials because of a shortage of courtrooms, the government spending watchdog has warned.”
BBC News, 6th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Revealed: police databank on thousands of protesters – The Guardian
“Police are targeting thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations and storing their details on a database for at least seven years, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal.”
The Guardian, 6th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Harriet Harman under attack over bid to water down child pornography law – Daily Telegraph
“Harriet Harman has been accused of a conflict of interest after it emerged that she once advocated the watering down of child pornography laws.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
The Tottenham lawyer, the £100m Nigerian bribe – and Dick Cheney – The Independent
“Shabby solicitor’s office in north London at the centre of an extraordinary transatlantic investigation.”
The Independent, 7th March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Teenager sentenced over bomb hoax – BBC News
“A 19-year-old man from Oxfordshire has been jailed for 14 months for carrying out a bomb hoax at the Swindon headquarters of WH Smith.”
BBC News, 6th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Former priest jailed over abuse – BBC News
“A former Kent priest has been jailed for 18 months after pleading guilty to five charges of gross indecency and indecent assault against teenage boys.”
BBC News, 6th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Prisoner jailed for bomb threat – BBC News
“A former English teacher who threatened to blow up a Hampshire hospital with a car bomb has been jailed for 16 months.”
BBC News, 6th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
