“A magistrate who is facing disciplinary action after describing two teenage vandals as ‘absolute scum’ insisted today he had used ‘appropriate’ language.”
The Guardian, 18th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A teenage milkman who was prepared to ‘die fighting’ for an ultra rightwing group called the Aryan Task Force was convicted on three terrorism charges today.”
The Guardian, 30th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A teenager who killed a man and boasted about it on the social networking site Facebook has been detained for four years.”
BBC News, 22nd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who fled civil war as a child, with the British midwife who delivered him, has been told he will be deported.”
BBC News, 15th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A review of the Youth Justice Board and its pioneering role in managing the youth justice system has been published today.”
Ministry of Justice, 25th March 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A 17-year-old boy has been convicted of killing his baby daughter in Lancashire by shaking her during a momentary loss of temper.”
BBC News, 17th March 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge has criticised the justice system for tying his hands with ‘ridiculously short sentences’ after he was forced to free a gang that took a teenager from a children’s home and tortured him.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th March 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A judge said the public deserved to know the identities of offenders who committed ‘grave crimes’ as he allowed the naming of a juvenile who killed an innocent peacemaker with a single punch.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th March 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“More than 150 children are convicted every day of crimes including violent assaults and burglary, with some offenders as young as 10 years-old.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd March 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Jailing one young criminal costs the taxpayer as much as £140,000 a year, a report says today. Locking up young offenders makes them more likely to commit further crimes and be unemployed later in life, the New Economics Foundation says.”
The Guardian, 1st March 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A 19-year-old who killed her boyfriend on the day she received her A-level results has been sentenced to five years in a young offenders’ institute.”
BBC News, 26th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Communities in the North East affected by crime will get a say in how young offenders are punished, Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced today.”
Ministry of Justice, 18th February 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A prisons watchdog has criticised ‘appalling’ conditions at a young offenders’ institute (YOI), it emerged today.”
The Independent, 17th February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Lady Scotland rules sentences for brothers who submitted two boys to ordeal of violence and sexual abuse were appropriate.”
The Guardian, 15th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A teenage gang member who knifed a 16-year-old army cadet through the heart was sentenced to a minimum of 17 years behind bars today.”
The Independent, 2nd February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A 15-year-old boy who kicked a homeless man to death in an alcohol-fuelled act of ‘random violence’ has been locked up for four years.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th January 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A teenager who sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl while on bail awaiting trial for the rape of a 10-year-old girl, can now be named.”
BBC News, 26th January 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The attorney general is to reconsider the sentences given to two brothers last week for beating and torturing another pair of boys, her office said today.”
The Guardian, 26th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Where it was sought to deport or remove a settled migrant who had spent the major part of his/her childhood in the United Kingdom, on the basis that he had committed criminal offences, the Home Secretary would have to show very serious reasons to justify his/her removal which would interfere with the migrant’s Convention right to respect for his private and family life. The decision letter should make it clear whether the decision had been made for the prevention of disorder or crime or for the maintenance of effective immigration control.”
WLR Daily, 25th January 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.
“Sentencing remarks of Mr Justice Keith in the Matter of the Edlington Two”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 22nd January 2010
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
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