Rail damage graffiti group jailed – BBC News
“Four graffiti vandals have been jailed after admitting causing an estimated £50,000 of damage to trains and chaos to services in the South East.”
BBC News, 10th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: criminal damage
Sacked gardener cleared of poisoning judge’s lawn – The Guardian
“A country gardener has been cleared of poisoning a retired high court judge’s lawn after being sacked following a long-running feud with the judge’s horticulturist wife.”
The Guardian, 6th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Power station protesters cleared – BBC News
“Six Greenpeace activists have been found not guilty of causing criminal damage during a protest in Kent.”
BBC News, 10th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Council orders pensioners to clean up graffiti or face £1,000 fines – Daily Telegraph
“Pensioners whose homes were vandalised with graffiti have been threatened with fines of up to £1,000 if they do not have it cleaned up.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th August 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Gardener accused of poisoning former judge’s plants – Daily Telegraph
“Sir Richard Tucker, for years one of the country’s most senior judges, is heading for court in a row with his former gardener over poisoned plants.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Train attack youth’s sentence cut – BBC News
” A youth who dropped masonry from a bridge shattering a train’s windscreen and hitting the driver of a separate train has had his prison sentence cut.”
BBC News, 20th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Judge regrets jailing man in neighbour feud – Daily Telegraph
“A judge has spoken of his ‘regret’ at having to jail a pensioner for five years for firing a pistol at a neighbour’s car after a long-running feud.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Wife’s shoes destroyed by husband as revenge – Daily Telegraph
“A businessman took revenge on his wife for divorcing him by destroying one shoe of every pair she owned before suggesting that he had given them to Lady McCartney, a court heard yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th January 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Graffiti prison terms overturned – BBC News
“Two graffiti artists jailed for spray painting trains and railway bridges have had their sentences overturned.”
BBC News, 29th October 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Pair guilty over break-in at base – BBC News
“Two peace activists who broke into RAF Fairford and attacked US military vehicles have been found guilty of conspiracy to commit criminal damage.”
BBC News, 6th July 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Peace pair ‘stopping war crime’ – BBC News
Two anti-war campaigners who broke into an RAF base in Gloucestershire said they were acting to stop a war crime. ”
BBC News, 2nd July 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Fairford Two strike blow for anti-war protesters after jury decide they were acting to stop crime – The Guardian
“Ruling seen as ‘judicial endorsement’ of attempts to stop B52 bombers.”
The Guardian, 26th May 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
