“A ‘sexual predator’ who admitted a string of sexual assaults on woman was given an indeterminate jail sentence, police said.”
The Independent, 8th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Almost half of all sex offences are committed against children, despite them making up just 21% of the population, the BBC has learned.”
BBC News, 7th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Jim Watts, 57, a former disability bus driver, is serving a 12-and-a-half year jail sentence for sexually assaulting four severely mentally and physically disabled women.But there are serious concerns, raised by his legal team, that Watts, a married father of two, has been the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice, and that his case could serve as a significant deterrent to people thinking of working with severely disabled people.”
The Guardian, 2nd June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A judge branded a man a ‘parent’s worst nightmare’ today as he jailed him for two-and-a-half years for making indecent images of children he met through internet chat sites aimed at teenagers.”
The Independent, 24th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A sex attacker who was struck off the nursing register 14 years ago was today found guilty of rape and sexual assaults on patients in London.”
The Guardian, 20th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An eight-year-old girl who told her mother that two 10-year-old boys had sexually assaulted her, yesterday said in court that she had lied about the incident because she had been ‘naughty’ and was worried she would not get any sweets.”
The Independent, 14th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A prison officer from Suffolk has been jailed for three years for sexually abusing a 17-year-old in a young offenders’ institute.”
BBC News, 10th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former girls’ football team coach has been jailed for six years for spiking a girl’s drink with a drug during a day trip to a theme park.”
BBC News, 10th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“One of the longest-running legal cases in UK history, centred on systemic sexual abuse at children’s homes in the north-west of England, is poised to end after a judge found in favour of two men who claimed they had been sexually assaulted while in care.”
The Observer, 9th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A traffic warden and ex-rugby referee has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for sexually abusing two girls.”
BBC News, 6th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A sexual predator whose past violent crimes were exposed when he was caught operating a members-only website for paedophiles has been jailed for 14 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Police insisted today they are doing all they can to monitor sex offenders as it was revealed more than 300 are missing in the UK.”
The Independent, 26th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man who befriended a woman over the internet then had sex with her autistic teenage daughter was today jailed for more than three years.”
The Independent, 22nd April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The indefinite notification requirements for sexual offenders who had been sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment or more were incompatible with the right to respect for private and family life because they did not contain any mechanism for reviewing the justification for continuing the requirements in individual cases.”
WLR Daily, 21st April 2010
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.
“The ex-boss of a Liverpool children’s charity has been jailed indefinitely after admitting the ‘sadistic torture’ of women in a string of sex attacks.”
BBC News, 21st April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two convicted sex offenders have won the right to challenge their inclusion on the UK’s sex offenders register.”
BBC News, 21st April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Pakistani man who sexually abused two girls has won the right to stay in Britain, claiming his human rights would be breached if he was deported.”
BBC News, 20th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A university lecturer who rigged up a covert camera to spy on a woman using a shower was today ordered to register as a sex offender.”
The Independent, 16th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A judge has criticised sentencing guidelines which prevented him from jailing a man who groped a schoolgirl.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A father who filmed himself raping his baby daughter has been jailed for life.”
BBC News, 31st March 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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