“A Spanish man who tried to smuggle 2.8kg of cocaine – worth an estimated £112,000 – into the United Kingdom has been jailed for 11 years.”
UK Border Agency, 22nd July 2009
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A mother-of-four from Northampton has been found guilty of killing her husband by knifing him in the heart.”
BBC News, 23rd July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A drunken couple who celebrated winning £100 on the National Lottery with a display of exhibitionism in a town centre have walked free from court.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Rocker who lost part of leg in motorcycle accident given suspended sentence for attacking fellow concertgoer.”
The Guardian, 22nd July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for life for the murder of a policewoman who was shot dead during a bungled robbery.”
BBC News, 22nd July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Slade v Slade [2009] EWCA Civ 748; [2009] WLR (D) 248
“When a court was sentencing a contemnor for conduct which had already been the subject of sentencing founded upon a criminal conviction it was essential that the second court should be fully informed of the factors and circumstances reflected in the first sentence.”
WLR Daily, 20th July 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A jilted boyfriend was jailed for lifetoday today for gunning down his girlfriend’s parents, after blaming them for breaking up their relationship.”
The Guardian, 20th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“O’Connor and Rooney: serial burglars’ sentences doubled.”
Attorney General’s Office, 16th July 2009
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“Eight men have been sentenced for a drugs conspiracy that saw millions of pounds of heroin imported into the UK.”
BBC News, 16th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who ran over his own friend and left him dying in the road was jailed for more than five years today.”
The Independent, 16th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“If revenge is a dish best served cold, the portion served up by Martin Frostick was positively icy. Eleven years after he was gazumped on a house purchase, he launched a smear campaign to ruin the estate agents he blamed for the collapse of the deal.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Statement: Kinsella killers’ sentences not to be referred as unduly lenient.”
Attorney General’s Office, 15th July 2009
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“A blackmailer who threatened to expose her Muslim friend as a terrorist sympathiser has been jailed.”
BBC News, 15th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who posed as a businessman to trick two couples into renting out their homes where he and his wife squatted has been jailed for 15 months.”
BBC News, 14th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A golfer who beat a fellow player around the head with an eight iron after an outbreak of ‘golf rage’ was today jailed for nine months.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A gunman who shot a rival gang member in a north London barber shop as ‘payback’ for two other deaths has been jailed for life for murder.”
BBC News, 13th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A school caretaker called Stephen Singer was jailed for life on Monday for killing his lover Dina Sharpe after lacing her omelette with sleeping pills.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court of Appeal
“Where a judge did not accept the basis of a defendant’s plea of guilty, he was obliged to inform the defendant of that fact before proceeding to sentence.”
The Times, 13th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A newlywed couple who killed a man the morning after their wedding have been jailed for manslaughter.”
BBC News, 10th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A jealous husband who tried to ‘execute’ a love rival in a barbershop as he cut a child’s hair has been jailed indefinitely.”
BBC News, 10th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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