‘Prosecutors have been accused of behaving “ludicrously” by concealing the cause of a miscarriage of justice in which an undercover police officer is alleged to have used his fake identity in court to hide his covert infiltration.’
The Guardian, 27th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.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
‘A business student is facing jail after being found guilty of an acid attack that left a friend scarred for life.’
The Guardian, 23rd January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘David Rooke forced Craig Kinsella, 34, to live in a garage where he suffered regular beatings and ended up scavenging for food in bins, Sheffield Crown Court heard.’
Daily Telegraph, 7th January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Supreme Court, 18th December 2014
‘A man has been jailed for five years for punching and killing another man during a row over a disabled space in a supermarket car park.’
BBC News, 12th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Three Sikh men and a woman have received lengthy jail sentences after being convicted of slashing an elderly Indian general in the neck.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A violent rapist has been jailed for life after a landmark legal ruling in which his original acquittal for the offence was quashed by the court of appeal.’
The Guardian, 7th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Three members of a self-styled “Muslim Patrol” vigilante group have been jailed for harassing, intimidating and assaulting people on the streets of east London while claiming they were enforcing sharia law.’
The Guardian, 6th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A bag-snatcher who fatally injured a Birmingham grandmother during a mugging has been jailed for 11 years.’
BBC News, 2nd December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who burned to death a loan shark to whom he owed money has been jailed for 10 years.”
BBC News, 8h November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A convicted sex offender who grabbed a 10-year-old girl as she lay asleep in bed has been jailed for four years.”
BBC News, 5th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A group of women who are taking legal action against police chiefs over claims they were tricked into forming long-term relationships with undercover spies have lost their fight to have part of their case heard in public.”
The Guardian, 5th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A ‘sexually obsessed’ man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years for murdering a woman at a Bury St Edmunds pub.”
BBC News, 30th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The positive duty on the state (the police) to avert a real and immediate risk to life or injury, pursuant to articles 2 and 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, was not limited to identified or identifiable persons. It was sufficient that such potential victims were known or should be known to exist; and it made no difference that the risk arose during an incident which had already commenced.”
WLR Daily, 18th October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“More than three-quarters of gay, bisexual and lesbian victims of hate crime did not report it to the police, a survey found.”
The Independent, 15th October 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man who assaulted, raped and held a woman prisoner after she was snatched from Slovakia and trafficked to Lancashire has been jailed.”
BBC News, 10th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An award-winning actor is suing the Metropolitan Police for assault and false imprisonment after he was wrongly suspected of drug dealing.”
The Independent, 10th October 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A woman who arranged for two men to attack her former partner has been jailed for manslaughter.”
BBC News, 8th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A crime victim who was beaten almost to death by a baseball bat-wielding gang of thugs is fighting a landmark battle for compensation from Humberside police.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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