Man jailed for houseboat killing – BBC News
“A 55-year-old man has been jailed for stabbing his partner to death on their houseboat on the River Medway in Kent.”
BBC News, 17th December 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: homicide
Teacher jailed for manslaughter – BBC News
“A primary school teacher who struck his son-in-law with a cricket bat as he tried to defend his daughter has been jailed for manslaughter.”
BBC News, 16th December 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Binge-drinking killer sentenced – BBC News
“A teenager has been sentenced to eight years in a young offenders’ institution for killing a man who tried to give medical help to his drunken friend.”
BBC News, 15th December 2008
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Killing of Good Samaritan ‘could have been avoided’ after police blunder – Daily Telegraph
“A teenager who kicked a Good Samaritan to death had carried out a similar brutal street attack two months earlier but police failed to deal with the initial crime properly, a court has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th December 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Frenchman jailed for life for attempted murder of schoolgirl – The Guardian
“A Frenchman was jailed for life today after being found guilty of a frenzied knife attack on a schoolgirl as she walked through a Lancashire park earlier this year.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Fan’s High Court bid for freedom – BBC News
“Jailed Liverpool fan Michael Shields is due to take his bid for freedom to the High Court in London.”
BBC News, 4th December 2008
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
