“A magistrate has been reprimanded for highlighting the dangers of cannabis after her own brother’s addiction to the drug led to his death.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Victims of the ‘vile’ offence of human trafficking who become involved in crime should have their cases dealt with by the justice system with the ‘greatest sensitivity’, leading judges said today.”
The Independent, 21st June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A former cannabis user is dismantling the garden shed where he used to grow his drugs after being banned from going inside it by a judge.”
BBC News, 19th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A gunman who tried to kill a disabled woman after shooting her partner dead in a ‘cold-blooded, deliberate execution’ has been jailed for a minimum of 42 years.”
The Guardian, 12th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The parents of a toddler, who died from a heroin overdose, have admitted causing his death.”
BBC News, 10th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The parents of a young woman who died after taking mephedrone have issued a warning against the so-called ‘party drug’ that ‘ripped our family apart’.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A judge’s decision to allow a convicted drug dealer who abandoned his children
the right to stay in Britain over his ‘human rights’ is at the centre of
mounting political protest.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Current policy on illegal drugs creates victims of crime and more prisoners at a cost to taxpayers, the Prison Governors Association (PGA) has argued.”
BBC News, 25th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A corrupt detective has been found guilty of stealing large amounts of seized drugs and selling them back to drug dealers in a plot that made him and his brother around £600,000.”
The Guardian, 2nd April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Five men have today been sentenced at Warrington Crown Court for setting up a laboratory used to produce a synthetic substance called BMK. This is the first time that this method of BMK manufacture has been detected in the UK or continental Europe. BMK is not a controlled drug but is used to make amphetamine.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 14th March 2013
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Three men have been convicting of abducting a 13-year-old girl and forcing her to become their sex slave.”
The Guardian, 17th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who acted as full-time carer to his wife for the five years of their marriage has been jailed for administering an overdose of prescription drugs to her to give himself a day of respite.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“England’s most senior doctor has questioned the government’s policy of criminalising all people who take illegal drugs and said they should be treated primarily as if they have a ‘health problem’.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A widow whose husband was killed as he walked home from his local pub is to campaign for a change in the law after a banned driver dubbed ‘an absolute menace on the roads’ was jailed for only 18 months today for causing his death.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The current classification system simply cannot keep up as a new legal high emerges every six days in the UK and young people share links to where they can be bought online and via their mobile phones, Baroness Meacher, chairwoman of the parliamentary inquiry into legal highs, said.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Dozens of super-rich criminals – some worth tens of millions – have received vast sums in legal aid despite their illicit fortunes, an investigation has revealed.”
BBC News, 26th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two substances which are said to give users dangerous ‘legal highs’ are to be made illegal class B drugs – with users facing up to five years in jail.”
BBC News, 1st November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The penalties for drug misuse should be relaxed so that possession of small amounts would no longer be a criminal offence, the government has been urged.”
BBC News, 15th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“In a recent Crown Court trial the Prosecution made a Bad Character application alleging that the factual basis of a previous conviction was so similar to the alleged facts of the instant case, that the previous conviction should be admitted. This was propensity with a heavy dollop of similar fact.”
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Zenith Chambers, 17th September 2012
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“A 61-year-old man has been jailed for 28 years after masterminding a plot to smuggle 1.5 tonnes of cocaine into the UK.”
The Independent, 24th September 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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