‘Four members of an organised crime gang that stole £400,000 in a series of armed robberies targeting cash vans have been jailed.’
The Guardian, 14th November 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Two scammers have been imprisoned today (15 July 2022) for a pension fraud worth over £20 million which caused many of the victims to lose their entire pensions.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 15th July 2022
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘A man jailed for selling illegal devices providing unauthorised streams of Premier League matches has been ordered to pay back almost £1m following a court ruling.’
The Guardian, 6th June 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Two men have been jailed for life with a minimum 18 years term after plotting a revenge murder with a James Bond-style gun.’
BBC News, 28th May 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A second man jailed for three and a half years over a multimillion-dollar bribery conspiracy to secure oil infrastructure contracts in Iraq has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal.’
The Independent, 24th March 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A drive-by shooter has been jailed for more than five years after opening fire near a primary school.’
Daily Telegraph, 19th March 2022
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Two men who planned a revenge shooting have been convicted at the Old Bailey in the first murder plot case involving the use of the encrypted messaging system EncroChat.’
The Guardian, 14th March 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Four convicted people smugglers, who assisted in the unlawful immigration of 39 people from Vietnam who died in the back of a lorry in Essex, have been ordered to pay £31,493.47 in confiscation orders.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 3rd March 2022
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘The family of Sasha Johnson have vowed to get justice after the case against four men accused over the shooting that left her seriously injured collapsed last week.’
The Guardian, 28th February 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The High Court has struck out a professional negligence claim against a London law firm that it decided had been “warehoused”.’
Legal Futures, 18th January 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Three members of a gang have been jailed for their part in the UK’s biggest burglary spree, a £26m series of raids on celebrity homes likened to a Hollywood movie.’
The Guardian, 15th November 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Chart-topping rapper Nines has been jailed for 28 months for importing 28kg of cannabis.’
The Independent, 2nd October 2021
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Three members of a gang linked to the largest human trafficking ring ever exposed in the UK have been jailed.’
BBC News, 25th September 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man linked to the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex is to pay £3,000 in compensation to their families.’
BBC News, 24th July 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Members of a machete-wielding gang who raided a string of corner shops and terrorised a young family in their home have been jailed.’
BBC News, 30th June 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Two former Royal Marines have been jailed for smuggling cocaine into the UK in boxes of Lego, after one of them was accidentally given to a child for his birthday.’
The Guardian, 15th June 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man who was the “very head” of a large-scale international drugs conspiracy with links to Colombia has been jailed.’
BBC News, 10th June 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘For those practitioners who thought that a positive decision from the Single Competent Authority as to whether a defendant was a victim of trafficking is admissible, having been settled since early 2020 with the Divisional Court decision in DPP v M [2020] EWHC 344 Admin, well…think again.’
Carmelite Chambers, 20th May 2021
Source: www.carmelitechambers.co.uk
‘A former Metropolitan police officer who used his position to help a criminal gang seize money from other offenders has been jailed for eight years.’
The Guardian, 13th May 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Six men who stole more than £160,000 worth of items from supermarkets, by setting off alarms to distract security guards, have been jailed.’
BBC News, 14th April 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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