‘A hair transplant conman duped two dementia patients out of their life savings so that he could buy a new £10k hairline.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th September 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A council worker has admitted defrauding around £60,000 from the Grenfell Tower victim fund.’
BBC News, 30th August 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who stabbed a Muslim surgeon who treated victims of the Manchester terror attack has been jailed. Ian Rooke attacked Dr Nasser Kurdy as he made his way towards Altrincham Islamic Centre for afternoon prayers in September. The 29-year-old, of no fixed address, was jailed for five years and four months at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court after pleading guilty to wounding with intent and possession of a weapon.’
The Independent, 31st August 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A judge has laid into a Tommy Robinson fan who daubed a city centre with swastikas and “Hitler was right” posters for having “no idea what living under a tyrannical regime” is like.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st August 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A police officer who raped a toddler has been jailed along with a Welsh Government lawyer for his part in child sex abuse.’
BBC News, 6th August 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who threw a seven-month-old baby and its mother out of a window has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 2nd August 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Members of Britain’s first all-female terror cell, including a mother and daughter, have been jailed for planning a knife attack on members of the public outside the Palace of Westminster in London.’
The Guardian, 15th June 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A law student has admitted racially aggravated harassment after mobile phone footage captured “disgusting” racist chanting at a university halls of residence.’
The Guardian, May 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man has been jailed for life with a minimum of 29 years at the after he admitted killing a bartender in a park as she made her way home at Christmas.’
The Guardian, 17th May 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Two brothers who invested up to £16.7million on behalf of more than 200 elderly and vulnerable clients, resulting in losses of more than £5million, have been jailed today.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 3rd May 2018
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘A man convicted of helping Daesh extremists to open social media accounts so they could spread Islamist propaganda online has been jailed.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 27th April 2018
‘A driver who killed two young brothers in a hit-and-run crash while high on cocaine has been jailed for nine years.’
BBC News, 27th April 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Four men jailed for child grooming and treating “teenage girls like trophies” have been banned from using Snapchat.’
BBC News, 19th April 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A former church minister has been jailed for historical sex offences committed over a period of 22 years.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 10th April 2018
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘A conman who posed as a private detective and targeted grieving families has had his jail term reduced from 10 to six years.’
BBC News, 13th April 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Three men have today been found guilty of sexually abusing young female members of the Salvation Army in Blackpool in the 1970s and 1980s.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 22nd March 2018
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘A man from Sheffield who admitted to deliberately setting fire to a museum, a university and a hospital, so he could steal from the evacuated buildings, has been jailed.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 24th February 2018
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘A hacker who was responsible for thousands of cyber-attacks on firms around the world including Skype and Google has been jailed for two years.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 18th January 2018
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘A teenage hacker who helped others to target high profile companies such as Virgin, O2, NatWest Bank and Netflix has been sentenced after facilitating cyber-attacks that crashed their websites.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 19th December 2017
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘A woman has been jailed for four years after her dog ran into a playground and attacked 12 children.’
The Guardian, 12th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
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