“A dental technician who threatened to kidnap Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone’s daughter Tamara in a £200,000 blackmail plot faces a substantial jail term.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Government has outlined plans for improving the technology used by police and the courts system to make judicial processes faster and more efficient. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said that past investments cost too much and under-performed.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A former maths teacher who carried out a ‘campaign of sexual offending’ while working at two private schools has been jailed for five years.”
BBC News, 10th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who urinated on a plaque in a war memorial in South Gloucestershire and scratched the word “prick” into the pavement has been jailed for 11 weeks.”
The Independent, 6th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Ministers are to announce plans to allow magistrates to sit on their own in community centres or police stations in a bid to speed up justice.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The teenager who killed pensioner Richard Mannington Bowes during the summer riots has been sentenced to eight years’ detention.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A looter has been jailed for 11-and-a-half years for starting a fire which destroyed a family-run furniture shop in south London in the summer riots.”
BBC News, 11th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A serial armed robber who dressed up as Elvis Presley and sported other bizarre disguises when he targeted betting shops across Britain was today jailed for life.”
The Independent, 2nd April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Months earlier Ivan Barker, 21, had stolen a laptop and cigarettes from wheelchair-bound Jean Jacque Mathely. So when he called round to say ‘sorry’ his victim was naturally guarded, but let him in after he said police suggested he should face up to his offending. But once inside, rather than apologise to the man he had wronged, he made off with Mr Mathley’s new laptop. Now Barker, who sold the stolen goods to pay for booze, has finally been jailed for 16 weeks after pleading guilty to theft.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“He swore at officers after going berserk and headbutting Tory MP Stuart Andrew and councillor Ben Maney. The suspended Labour party member was warned he could face prison for the attacks. But chief magistrate Howard Riddle fined him £3,000 and ordered him to pay £1,400 to victims after he entered early guilty pleas.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The CPS is prosecuting more hate crimes, more successfully and with more defendants pleading guilty than ever before.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 14th February 2012
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“A judge has cut the minimum sentence to be served by a child rapist, Paul Wilson, in order to encourage other offenders to plead guilty and spare their victims the ordeal of a court case.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Three members of staff have admitted mistreating patients at a private hospital for people with learning difficulties.”
The Guardian, 9th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Members of a terror gang that plotted to bomb the London Stock Exchange could walk free in less than six years after they were given double the normal reduction in sentence for entering guilty pleas yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina v Armstrong [2012] EWCA Crim 83; [2012] WLR (D) 22
“If in the military courts a judge did not approve of a course that a military prosecutor intended to take the proper course for the judge was to ask for the matter to be referred either to the Director of Service Prosecutions or to the Attorney General, as might be appropriate.”
WLR Daily, 1st February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif have been found guilty of their part in a ‘spot-fixing’ scam after a trial at Southwark Crown Court.”
BBC News, 1st November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police need to be more aware of the danger of false confessions, according to a study that suggests that up to one in five convicted criminals may have pleaded guilty at some point to an offence they have not committed.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Law Society has launched a legal challenge against the government over criminal legal aid fees.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 5th October 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“David Cameron has forced Kenneth Clarke to abandon all plans for 50% sentence discounts for early guilty pleas, after an outcry on the Tory right and in the tabloids.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Justice secretary Kenneth Clarke has been forced by Number 10 to abandon a plan to give rapists, and other serious offenders, a 50% sentence discount in return for early guilty pleas, but he is fiercely resisting Treasury demands to make his justice ministry bear the multi-million pound cost.”
The Guardian, 8th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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