‘The killer of a children’s TV actor who showed “no remorse” over the fatal stabbing outside a London nightclub has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 1st May 2015
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‘A government policy to ban inmates with a history of absconding from being transferred to open prisons has been declared unlawful by senior judges.’
BBC News, 1st April 2015
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‘A young man who befriended an elderly gentleman at a bus stop before following him home and beating him with a potato masher and a poker has been sentenced to life in jail.’
The Independent, 3rd February 2015
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‘One of the UK’s most wanted fugitives, who was arrested on his return to Britain in a light aircraft, has been jailed.’
BBC News, 21st January 2015
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‘British court rules extradition of 48-year-old Tobias Bowen would breach human rights because he faces an “indefinite” sentence if convicted of sex crimes in New York.’
Daily Telegraph, 20th January 2015
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‘Giving evidence to MPs, former prime minister defends his role in allowing the on-the-run scheme in 1999.’
The Guardian, 13th January 2015
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‘The performance of more than a fifth of prisons in England and Wales is “of concern”, a government body has said.’
BBC News, 31st July 2014
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‘The post-Troubles scheme devised to reassure Irish republican “on-the-runs” (OTRs) that they were no longer wanted by the police was lawful and did not give terrorist suspects an amnesty, an independent review has concluded.’
The Guardian, 17th July 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Michael Wheatley, who is known as the Skull Cracker, is jailed for life for raiding building society while on the run from an open prison.’
Daily Telegraph, 29th May 2014
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‘A robber who went on the run and taunted police with ‘Catch Me If You Can’-style messages has disappeared again after being granted early release.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th May 2014
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‘A review has been ordered after an armed robber dubbed “the Skull Cracker” went missing when he was temporarily allowed out of an open prison.’
BBC news, 5th May 2014
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‘A judge who was a coroner at the inquest into the July 7 London bombings will lead a government inquiry into the IRA “on the runs” controversy, it has been announced. Lady Justice Hallett has been appointed to chair the review which will conclude at the end of May.’
The Guardian, 11th March 2014
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‘Criminals who go on the run to avoid being sent back to prison could face an extra two years in custody under plans announced by the government.’
BBC News, 18th January 2014
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“A benefits fraudster who fled to the Costa del Sol ahead of sentencing in 2008 has been jailed for three years. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith labelled it ‘outrageous’ that 70-year-old Norman Brennan had been in Spain for five years, and vowed to bring the pensioner back to face justice.”
The Independent, 18th November 2013
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“Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed’s escape was an embarrassment. The alleged torture and rendition that came before it might just be a major scandal.”
The Guardian, 13th November 2013
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“Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, the terror suspect who escaped surveillance wearing a burqa, is seeking damages from the government in a human rights legal challenge involving allegations of torture, it has been revealed at the high court.”
The Guardian, 7th November 2013
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“Asil Nadir, 69, is returning to face the multimillion pound fraud charges that followed the spectacular collapse of his Polly Peck food and electronics empire in 1993. He is expected to arrive at Luton airport from his native northern Cyprus around lunchtime, and is due to appear at the Old Bailey next Thursday.”
The Guardian, 26th August 2010
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“Prosecutors are under fire for not challenging the bail of a man who admitted witness intimidation only for him to go on the run for a second time.”
BBC News, 28th June 2010
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“When the trial of a gang of suspected armed robbers started at the High Court last month it made legal history as the first British criminal case to take place without a jury in more than 400 years. Now the courtroom has lost another key feature: one of the defendants.”
The Independent, 19th February 2010
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“A sex offender who fled to Brazil while facing a charge of assaulting a child has been jailed for three years.”
BBC News, 20th October 2008
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