‘A knifeman who attacked his pregnant ex-girlfriend after she’d dropped her children off at school has been jailed for attempted murder.’
The Independent, 28th May 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The events in Nottingham in the early morning of 13th June 2023 prompted an outpouring of collective grief. Valdo Calocane killed three innocent people and attempted to kill three others. The suffering for the victims’ families was palpable. Calocane was originally charged with murder and attempted murder. The Crown Prosecution Service later decided to accept the guilty pleas to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility. The reports of four separate psychiatrists all agreed that Calocane was suffering from an abnormality of mental functioning which arose from a recognised medical condition, and which substantially impaired his ability to form a rational judgment and to exercise self-control, such as to provide an explanation for the killings. He was sentenced in January of this year to a Hospital Order subject to restrictions (pursuant to sections 37 and 41 of Mental Health Act 1983).’
Mountford Chambers, 24th April 2024
Source: www.mountfordchambers.com
‘A 45-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering a complete stranger, telling police he wanted to kill people because of the conflict in Gaza.’
The Guardian, 25th April 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man who set two worshippers on fire as they left mosques has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order.’
BBC News, 17th April 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The children of a woman killed by a man serving a whole-life sentence have described how the possibility of his release from prison on “compassionate grounds” makes their “blood boil” and would be a “national scandal”.’
The Independent, 9th April 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Three men have been jailed after a burglary and violent attack involving a shooting in Redruth.’
BBC News, 5th March 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Lawyers for Letby will ask senior judges for permission to bring an appeal against all her convictions at the hearing in London provisionally listed for April 25, a judiciary spokeswoman confirmed on Friday [23rd February]’
The Independent, 23rd February 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Five teenagers from Peterborough have been jailed for at least seven years each after a knife attack at a play area which left two people seriously wounded.’
BBC News, 20th December 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A former UK intelligence worker has been jailed for life for a terrorist attack on an American woman who worked for the US government’s National Security Agency and was stationed at GCHQ in Gloucestershire.’
The Guardian, 30th October 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Victims of violent and sexual crimes are calling for court transcript costs to be cut after they were quoted “unaffordable” sums for them.’
BBC News, 24th October 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The case of a sex offender who attacked a woman in her 70s just months after he was released from prison shows the parole system needs reforming, an MP said.’
BBC News, 12th October 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Lucy Letby will face a retrial on a charge of attempting to murder a newborn baby girl, a court has been told.’
The Guardian, 25th September 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Prosecutors will decide on Monday whether to seek a retrial for child serial killer nurse Lucy Letby on a number of outstanding allegations.’
The Independent, 25th September 2023
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Why wasn’t Lucy Letby stopped sooner? This is the burning question that the families of her victims, and the public, are now asking. Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, has decided that the best means of answering it is a “non-statutory public inquiry”. But what is such an inquiry, and will it be better than a full-blown statutory public inquiry?’
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd August 2023
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A man who drunkenly tried to throw a woman in front of a Tube train as she travelled to Notting Hill Carnival has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.’
BBC News, 24th April 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A driver who mounted a pavement and deliberately hit a pedestrian has been jailed for 13 years.’
BBC News, 22nd March 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Counter-terror police are involved in an investigation into a man being set alight as he walked home from a mosque.’
BBC News, 21st March 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A teenager has been jailed for life for an “outrageous” gangland shooting in which a 15-year-old girl was struck in the neck by a bullet as she waited for a bus home from school.
The Guardian, 10th January 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man who attacked a stranger with a machete on a London Tube train has been jailed for a minimum of 16 years.’
BBC News, 12th September 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
A 90-year-old man has been found not guilty of trying to murder his unwell wife, after she woke him up one night.
BBC News, 6th September 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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