‘A female judge’s warning that drunk women are putting themselves at greater risk of rape was “victim-blaming”, a police commissioner has said.’
BBC News, 11th March 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Robert Molloy, 20, was sentenced to 24 weeks in prison over the racist attack filmed by a fellow tram passenger in Manchester.’
The Guardian, 7th February 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man who swallowed a live goldfish in a drinking dare has been given a suspended prison sentence.’
BBC News, 3rd February 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A GP who drove home after drinking almost an entire bottle of vodka at his surgery has been allowed to keep his job after medical watchdogs heard he was stressed at looking after 3,500 patients.’
Daily Telegraph, 31st January 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The driver of a car, who was not distracted and was driving at only 20mph, was negligent in failing to see a pedestrian who, in drink, walked out into the road in front of her car.’
Zenith PI Blog, 26th January 2017
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘A man has been jailed for killing a 17-year-old woman by not helping her when she fell into the sea.’
BBC News, January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A grammar school pupil who left his date to drown without helping her after taking a cocktail of drink and drugs has been jailed for manslaughter.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th January 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Wooldridge v George (2017) QBD (Judge Walden-Smith) 23/01/2017. The driver of a car, who was not distracted and was driving at only 20mph, was negligent in failing to see a pedestrian who, in drink, walked out into the road in front of her car.’
Zenith PI Blog, 26th January 2017
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘A tractor driver who drank the estimated equivalent of 13 pints of beer the night before he ran over and killed an 11-year-old boy on a farm has been jailed for more than a year.’
The Guardian, 13th December 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘One of Britain’s top judges castigated a sexual assault victim for “foolishness” for getting drunk on the night she was attacked.’
The Independent, 2nd December 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Police have accused magistrates of allowing a shameless single mother to treat police officers like her “personal punchbag” after she escaped jail for her 11th violent attack on them. Dawn Walker, 34, has a string of convictions for assaulting police during drunken foul mouthed rampages – including four separate incidents upon officers in this year alone. But the unemployed former cleaner – who claims employment support allowance – has repeatedly been spared jail after she insisted she was striving to be a “good role model” to her three children.’
Daily Telegraph, 19th September 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A drunk driver who fell asleep in traffic with a loaded gun resting on his lap has been jailed.’
BBC News, 30th August 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Drink or drug-drivers who cause fatal crashes should be charged with manslaughter and should face life sentences in prison, nine in 10 people think.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th July 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A wealthy businessman who drunkenly ploughed his new Mercedes into a marquee at a charity ball injuring 21 people has been jailed for more than a year.’
Daily Telegraph, 10th June 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A judge has slammed the “disgraceful behaviour” and drinking culture in the armed forces as a Royal Navy officer was cleared of the rape of a drunken colleague following a training college ball.’
Daily Telegraph, 7th June 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A motorist has been jailed for eight years after his passenger was killed when he crashed into a lorry while driving at more than 160mph.’
The Guardian, 9th May 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A judge has criticised a culture of “excessive drinking” and sexual relationships within the Royal Military Police, as two former soldiers were acquitted of raping a colleague who later killed herself.’
Daily Telegraph, 20th April 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Better partnerships and more effective information-sharing at the local level will be needed to reduce alcohol-related crime and disorder, the government has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 29th March 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
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