“A pregnant woman whose unborn baby was killed in a car crash has called for a change in the law after the driver responsible escaped with a £200 fine.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Sentencing Advisory Panel would like to commission research into the public’s view on some of the principles of sentencing for adults, and is inviting expressions of interest from organisations wishing to tender for the research. Responses are requested by 27 June 2008.”
Further details – Research on public attitudes to the overarching principles of sentencing (PDF)
Sentencing Guidelines Council, 19th June 2008
Source: www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk
“Two gunmen were yesterday found guilty of the ‘well-planned execution’ of a church-going teenager shot dead while he slept. His killers mistook him for his drug-dealing older brother.”
The Independent, 18th June 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Offenders carrying out community sentences could be forced to wear high-visibility bibs that will mark them out as criminals, part of measures designed to restore public confidence.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The head of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales has urged magistrates and judges to impose fewer custodial terms on young offenders.”
BBC News, 16th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A senior judge made a passionate plea for the Government to clamp down on disturbing internet images as he jailed four teenagers for a ‘sickening’ attack which they filmed.”
The Independent, 14th June 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A postman who left a hoax bomb on a bridge and sent white powder in the post to leading figures, including Tony Blair, has been jailed for four years.”
BBC News, 13th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two teenage boys jailed for life for the murder of a woman who was killed for dressing as a Goth have lodged an appeal against their sentences.”
BBC News, 13th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The family of a mother-of-four killed by a serial joyrider has condemned the courts after he was spared a maximum 14-year prison term and jailed for eight years.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The killer who became known as the Black Panther has been told he will spend the rest of his life in jail.”
BBC News, 12th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Bereaved families have marched in London to demand tougher sentencing for the perpetrators of violent crime.”
BBC News, 12th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The standard of proof to be established when the Life Sentence Review Commissioners were considering whether a prisoner who had served the tariff on his life sentence should be released, was the civil standard of the balance of probabilities.”
WLR Daily, 11th June 2008
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.
“Three UK businessmen were today sentenced to imprisonment for between two and a half to three years for cartel offences. All three were also disqualified from acting as company directors for periods of between five and seven years. These are the first ever convictions for a cartel offence since criminal prosecution powers were given to the OFT under the Enterprise Act.”
Office of Fair Trading, 11th June 2008
Source: www.oft.gov.uk
“More than half of young people who are found guilty of sex or violent offences are spared jail, figures show.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A care worker who planned to have her husband killed so she could claim insurance money has been jailed for seven years.”
BBC News, 10th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The mother of barrister’s clerk Lee Cook, who was killed in a City bar because of a row over a spilt drink, berated a senior judge across a courtroom for the ‘disgusting’ 14-month sentence he passed on the man responsible.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A 13-year-old boy who pulled a knife from his sock and stabbed a pupil at a school in Leeds has been sentenced.”
BBC News, 6th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who said he could barely walk and claimed £90,000 in benefits has been jailed for 18 months after fraud inspectors filmed him playing football.”
BBC News, 6th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teenager was today sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of shooting a youth worker six times as he sat on a garden wall.”
The Guardian, 6th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“For six years Virendra Rastogi posed as the highly successful and respectable chief executive of a multibillion-pound metal trading company. His home was in Mayfair, a short chauffeur-driven trip from his offices in Piccadilly, his children were at private school and his customers were dotted around the world. But all was not quite as it appeared. The business, backed by banks in Britain and the United States, was ‘propped up by dishonesty’, the customers were Rastogi’s accomplices and his customers’ addresses included a New Jersey launderette and a cowshed in India.”
The Times, 6th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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