“A prolific sex attacker who returned to comfort his victim minutes after brutally assaulting her has been jailed for 10 years.”
The Independent, 20th August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Driving licences are being stripped from dozens of people after an interpreter who gave Chinese theory test candidates the answers.”
BBC News, 8th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for more than six years for supplying a class A drug to a teenage girl who died after taking the substance.”
BBC News, 7th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former teacher who evaded the authorities for more than a decade has been jailed for 14 years for sexually abusing boys at a Norfolk school.”
BBC News, 5th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teenager who killed an off-duty police officer has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in a young offenders institution.”
BBC News, 25th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A British man who threatened to kill 200 people in the US, in posts he made under a false name on Facebook, has been jailed for more than two years.”
BBC News, 9th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v Lawrence [2013] EWCA Crim 1054; [2013] WLR (D) 263
“The Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) had no power, when allowing an appeal against conviction, either to substitute a plea of guilty in respect of an offence as to which the defendant could not have pleaded or been found guilty or to order retrial.”
WLR Daily, 28th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A teacher has been jailed for five and a half years for abducting and having sex with a 15-year-old pupil he ran off with to France.”
BBC News, 21st June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A farm has been fined £80,000 after a young farm worker was killed when the tractor she was driving overturned in a sloping field.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Attorney General is to examine whether disgraced former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall’s 15-month sentence for indecent assault was ‘unduly lenient’, as politicians and charities said it should be extended.”
The Independent, 17th June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A hacker with the notorious ‘hacktivist’ collective LulzSec is to be released ‘imminently’ despite being found with more than 170 indecent images of children as young as six months.”
The Independent, 12th June 2013
Source: www.independent.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
“Six men who planned an attack on an English Defence League rally which could have sparked ethnic violence on Britain’s streets, have been jailed for a total of more than a 100 years.”
The Guardian, 10th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who smothered and strangled his mother has been jailed for 13 years, police said today.”
The Guardian, 22nd May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Stuart Hazell was jailed for life at the Old Bailey with a minimum term of 38 years today after finally admitting the murder of schoolgirl Tia Sharp.”
The Independent, 14th May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“England’s 800-year-old tradition of fair and open access to justice for all will
be destroyed by sweeping Government plans to reform criminal legal aid, senior
judges and magistrates warn today.”
The Independent, 28th April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A petty criminal addicted to chewing the stimulant plant khat has been jailed for life after nearly decapitating a former friend.”
BBC News, 23rd April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former Metropolitan Police community support officer with a history of sexual crime dating back to the age of 12 has been jailed after he secretly filmed himself abusing children.”
The Independent, 11th April 2013
Source: www.indepedent.co.uk
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