Teenage rapper jailed for killing – BBC News
“A teenage rapper has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for killing a 16-year-old schoolboy in a row about lyrics posted on the internet.”
BBC News, 1st December 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: homicide
Judge postpones Baby P sentencing – BBC News
“The sentencing of three people over the death of Baby P has been postponed for at least three months.”
BBC News, 28th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
GP acquitted over allergy death – BBC News
“A former Devon GP charged with killing an elderly patient by prescribing the wrong medication has been acquitted.”
BBC News, 27th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Seven years for naked jump killer – BBC News
“A man who jumped naked from the window of a burning house, leaving the body of his ex-girlfriend, has been jailed indefinitely for her manslaughter.”
BBC News, 24th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Pensioner locked up indefinitely after beating wife to death – Daily Telegraph
“A pensioner who beat his cancer-stricken wife of 30 years to death as she lay in bed has been locked up in a secure unit indefinitely.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Man ‘shopped’ by mother is jailed – BBC News
“A man whose mother shopped him to police after he admitted killing a man has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to manslaughter.”
BBC News, 7th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Life sentence over knife in skull – BBC News
“A teenager is to serve at least seven years for attempted murder after stabbing a boy in the head.”
BBC News, 6th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Schizophrenic killed neighbour he wrongly believed was a paedophile – Daily Telegraph
“A schizophrenic who stabbed a neighbour to death in front of his family in the mistaken belief that he was a paedophile has been detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Woman jailed for street killing – BBC News
“A woman who killed a Polish man in a Salford street has been jailed.”
BBC News, 20th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Father given suspended sentence after daughter’s quad bike death – The Guardian
“The father of a seven-year-old girl killed in a head-on collision while riding a quad bike was today given a nine-month suspended jail term after admitting his daughter’s manslaughter.”
The Guardian, 20th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Devoted husband who suffocated wife is spared jail – Daily Telegraph
“A retired civil servant who suffocated his seriously ill wife with a plastic bag as she lay in her hospital bed has been spared jail.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Jail term for baby killer father – BBC News
“A ‘selfish’ father has been jailed for five years for killing his baby daughter in a fit of temper.”
BBC News, 26th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Five years for knife fight killer – BBC News
“A teenager has been sentenced to five years youth detention for stabbing a student to death ‘instinctively’. ”
BBC News, 12th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Man sentenced for strangling wife – BBC News
“A man who killed his 30-year-old wife and dumped her body in a Staffordshire lay-by has been jailed for seven years.”
BBC News, 11th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Two years for soldier’s shooting – BBC News
“A British soldier who shot dead a colleague while ‘playing’ with a rifle in Iraq in 2007 has been sentenced to two years in an Army detention centre.”
BBC News, 10th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Boy, 16, jailed over crash death – BBC News
“A 16-year-old boy has been jailed for five years for killing a teenage passenger in a car crash during a police pursuit in Brighton.”
BBC News, 8th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Prison for BNP activist’s killer – BBC News
“An Asian man who killed his BNP activist neighbour in a dispute has been jailed for eight years.”
BBC News, 29th August 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mental health killings ‘falling’ – BBC News
“The number of killings by people with mental health problems in England and Wales has fallen by two-thirds in the last 30 years, a study has found.”
BBC News, 1st August 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Judge criticises ‘beasting’ punishments in the Army – Daily Telegraph
“A senior judge has criticised the Army for allowing soldiers to take part in unofficial ‘beasting’ punishments after three soldiers accused of exercising a colleague to death were all acquitted of manslaughter.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Murder, manslaughter and infanticide: proposals for reform of the law – Ministry of Justice
“The government has been conducting a review into the law on homicide. The first part of the review was conducted by the Law Commission. This paper now sets out the government proposals for reforms on:
- partial defences to murder of diminished responsibility and provocation
- the law on complicity in relation to homicide
- infanticide”
Ministry of Justice, 29th July 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Related link: Murder, manslaughter and infanticide: proposals for reform of the law (PDF)
