“Murders of children by other children have tripled in three years, as more of the nation’s youth get drawn into a deadly world of guns and knives.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th January 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A court hearing tomorrow, being described by lawyers as unprecedented in UK legal history, will decide whether the death of the man who took the last photograph of George Bernard Shaw must remain a mystery.”
The Independent, 27th January 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Justice Secretary Jack Straw is to meet the family of a murdered man to discuss why his killer was out on bail.”
BBC News, 25th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Robert Napper today pleaded not guilty to the 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The leader of the gang that kicked and beat Garry Newlove to death was released on bail despite having admitted to carrying out seven separate offences in the year leading up to the murder.”
The Guardian, 18th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jack Straw came to the defence of judges and magistrates faced with controversial bail decisions last night, as it emerged that a teenager who killed Garry Newlove had been bailed ten hours earlier.”
The Times, 18th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The wife of father of three Garry Newlove, killed as he confronted a gang of teenage vandals, has delivered an emotional plea for the three youths convicted of his murder today to be handed maximum life sentences.”
The Times, 16th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Much of a murder trial will be held in secret for reasons of ‘national security’, an Old Bailey judge ruled yesterday.”
The Guardian, 16th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Attorney General will not investigate a judge who freed a Met Police inspector who then apparently killed himself and his mother-in-law.”
BBC News, 15th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge who freed a policeman accused of murdering his wife, enabling him apparently to kill again, said yesterday that he could not remember why he had granted bail.”
The Times, 15th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Media organisations including the Guardian yesterday challenged a demand unprecedented in modern times – that witnesses at a forthcoming murder trial should be heard in secret, for ‘national security’ reasons.”
The Guardian, 15th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A jury of 10 men and two women was selected yesterday to hear the trial of a forklift truck driver accused of murdering five prostitutes during a killing spree carried out at a pace never seen before in Britain.”
The Independent, 15th January 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A millionaire City executive and ‘totally devoted father’ killed his two-year-old daughter by smashing her head against the floor because he believed she had been taken over by a ‘malign and satanic entity’.
The Times, 12th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Ministry of Justice said last night it will urgently review its guidance to judges in the wake of the tragic consequences of a decision to grant bail to a senior police officer accused of murdering his wife.”
The Guardian, 14th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Northern Ireland Policing Board last night agreed to appoint a team of independent experts to re-examine evidence from the Omagh bombing, in an attempt to bring to justice those responsible for the 1998 atrocity.”
The Guardian, 4th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Northern Ireland man has been cleared of the murders of 29 people who died in the Omagh bomb attack in 1998.”
BBC News, 20th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
A teenager who stabbed a friend to death after a drunken party should have been under curfew and wearing an electronic tag, it was disclosed yesterday.
Daily Telegraph, 19th December 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A woman jailed for life for murdering her husband with a drugs overdose disguised in a curry has been told she must serve at least 16 years in jail.”
BBC News, 17th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two men jailed for life for shooting a policewoman to death today failed to win a cut in their 35-year minimum sentences.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Ministry of Justice today (12 December) announced the next step in the first comprehensive review of murder law for fifty years.”
Ministry of Justice press release, 12th December 2007
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
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