‘Four teenagers have been convicted at the Old Bailey of killing a man with a mental age of nine who was stabbed during a mugging in west London.’
BBC News, 28th August 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Four teenagers have been convicted at the Old Bailey of killing a man with a mental age of nine who was stabbed during a mugging in west London.’
BBC News, 28th August 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A gang has been jailed over a smash-and-grab raid at the flagship Selfridges store in central London.’
BBC News, 19th August 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Three men have been jailed for a series of robberies across the Midlands, including one in which they held an axe to the throat of a nine-year-old boy.’
BBC News, 11th August 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Two men who kicked a snooker club worker to death in a Northampton churchyard have been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 1st August 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Michael Wheatley, who is known as the Skull Cracker, is jailed for life for raiding building society while on the run from an open prison.’
Daily Telegraph, 29th May 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The jail sentences of two men who plotted to rob and kill the pop singer Joss Stone have been reduced by the appeal court.’
The Guardian, 20th May 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Judge apologises to victims after court hears armed robber had received life sentences twice before.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st March 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A convicted robber who sparked an international search has been sentenced to more than nine years in jail.’
BBC News, 1st March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who tried to rape a woman in a “chilling” attack while she was on the phone to police has been jailed.’
BBC News, 3rd February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Several members of a family who attempted to kidnap their sister’s gay partner have been jailed.’
BBC News, 24th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Ministers have been accused of insulting victims after it emerged that half of convicted sex attackers, violent criminals and burglars are avoiding prison sentences.’
The Guardian, 8th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Four men who posed as police officers and handcuffed victims while ransacking their properties have been jailed.’
BBC News, 13th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A ‘model pupil’ who robbed a bank with an imitation firearm has been sentenced to 40 months in a Young Offenders’ Institution.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Supreme Court, 9th October 2013
“A gang of robbers on a crime spree who left one of their victims to drown when they pushed him into a Manchester canal has been sentenced for manslaughter.”
BBC News, 4th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge has told an 18-year-old girl not to get pregnant again after she repeatedly punched a vulnerable young man in a gang attack and stole his phone and bicycle.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A magistrate who has retired after 25 years on the bench expressed his ‘dismay’ at the way courts have pandered towards rehabilitating criminals rather than punishing them.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Serious offenders will no longer receive a mere ‘slap on the wrist’, the justice secretary has said, as he announced an overhaul of the cautions system.”
The Guardian, 29th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who claims to be the UK’s only victim of two miscarriages of justice has said he wants an apology.”
BBC News, 15th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
© Inner Temple Library 2024