“Wayne Rooney will miss England’s 2012 European Championship group matches after being banned for three matches for his red card against Montenegro.”
BBC News, 13th October 2011
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“A man has been jailed after pleading guilty to the rape and indecent assault of a woman in her Ipswich home in 1987.”
BBC News, 5th October 2011
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“A police investigation has been launched into an alleged assault on a Nigerian asylum seeker in front of her three young children on a plane bound for Italy.”
The Guardian, 3rd October 2011
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“A US businessman who drunkenly abused staff on a British Airways flight to London has been jailed for three months.”
BBC News, 23rd September 2011
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“A secondary school assistant head teacher has spoken of his anguish at being accused of assualt by an unruly pupil as he tried to restore order in his school.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th September 2011
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“An inquiry is under way after a Taser gun was used by police on a 16-year-old schoolboy.”
The Independent, 16th September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Adults with learning disabilities at the centre of a care abuse case in Cornwall will receive about £8m in compensation.”
BBC News, 15th September 2011
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“A TV aerial fitter who sexually assaulted an 85-year-old woman in her own home after doping her with designer drugs has been told he faces a ‘lengthy custodial sentence’.”
The Independent, 9th September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A judge has warned a former police officer that he may be jailed after being found guilty of assaulting a man he was trying to arrest.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th August 2011
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“A minicab driver has been jailed for 11 years for raping and threatening to kill an 18-year-old woman in Surrey.”
BBC News, 22nd August 2011
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“An HIV expert has been jailed for keeping a 21-year-old woman as a slave.”
The Guardian, 11th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The comedian who threw a foam pie at Rupert Murdoch has had his jail sentence reduced on appeal.”
The Indepedent, 5th August 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man jailed for six weeks for throwing shaving foam at News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch is appealing against his sentence.”
BBC News, 5th August 2011
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“The killer of Milly Dowler is suing the prison service for £30,000 after he was assaulted in jail, it has been reported.”
The Guardian, 3rd August 2011
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“A man who threw a plate of shaving foam at News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch has been jailed for six weeks.”
BBC News, 2nd August 2011
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“A science teacher who attacked a 14-year-old pupil with a dumbbell has been banned from teaching for life.
Peter Harvey, now 51, had been provoked by pupils during a lesson in July 2009 when they called him a ‘psycho’ and ‘bald-headed bastard’. He lost control and hit the teenager about the head with the 3kg weight while shouting ‘die, die, die’.”
The Guardian, 30th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jonathan May-Bowles, the comedian who threw a foam pie at media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has been convicted of assault and causing harassment, alarm or distress.”
Daiy Telegraph, 29th July 2011
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“Three people have been found guilty of murdering a woman who was found dead on a disused railway line.”
BBC News, 29th July 2011
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“A man has been jailed for 10 years after stabbing his ex-fiancee minutes after she called off their wedding.”
BBC News, 19th July 2011
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“A senior nurse convicted of assaulting an 88-year-old patient in hospital has been cleared on appeal.”
BBC News, 30th June 2011
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