‘Three people who forced laundry detergent into a pregnant teenager’s mouth as they tried to make her have a miscarriage have been jailed.’
BBC News, 8th July 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Changing the way we talk about suicide isn’t enough when people who try to kill themselves are being prosecuted.’
The Guardian, 4th June 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A police force has defended its decision to prosecute two mentally ill women who were charged after they caused traffic jams when trying to kill themselves.’
The Guardian, 22nd May 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Members of a moped gang who threatened to hurt a woman’s three-year-old son in a “shocking” attempted robbery have been jailed.’
BBC News, 13th May 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A woman whose daughter tried to kill herself while in an isolation booth at an academy school is to take legal action against the government.’
The Guardian, 3rd April 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A woman who threatened her grandfather with a hammer while robbing him to fund her drug addiction has been jailed for four years.’
The Independent, 20th February 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Two men who between them spent 24 years in prison before their convictions were overturned are not entitled to compensation, judges have ruled.’
The Independent, 30th January 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A gangland hitman has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders of the Salford criminal Paul Massey, known as “Mr Big”, and his associate John Kinsella.’
The Guardian, 17th January 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A former Cambridge University rugby player has been locked up after forcing himself on a fellow student in her college bedroom..’
The Independent, 13th December 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Notorious inmate Charles Bronson has been cleared of trying to cause grievous bodily harm a senior prison officer.’
The Independent, 15th November 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A man has been arrested on suspicion of trying to steal a Magna Carta from Salisbury Cathedral.’
The Guardian, 26th October 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Families and young children looked on in horror as teenagers lashed out at each other with blades including a machete and a large serrated hunting knife at a busy shopping mall, a court has heard.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st september 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A man has admitted trying to kill six children in a hit-and-run that left one teenage girl with a broken neck.’
The Guardian, 28th August 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A “very dangerous” man who threw a baby out of a window after trying to gouge its eyes out has been jailed for life. Sean Ziemelis, 31, also tried to strangle the baby boy before throwing him from a second-storey window in the early hours of 1 August 2017, Luton crown court heard.’
The Guardian, 3rd August 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man who threw a seven-month-old baby and its mother out of a window has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 2nd August 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who stamped on his partner’s head and then tried to kill her neighbour has been jailed for 20 years with five more years on extended licence.’
BBC News, 1st August
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An Army sergeant has been jailed for life for trying to murder his wife by sabotaging her parachutes.’
BBC News, 15th June 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The “very dangerous, coercive and manipulative” physical training instructor showed no emotion as he was convicted on Thursday of two counts of attempted murder and a third count of damaging the gas fitting recklessly endangering life following a retrial at Winchester Crown Court.’
Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A man who doused his neighbour with petrol and set her alight has been jailed for 19 years.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 20th April 2018
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘A man who hit a Somali woman with his car before going back to run her over as she lay helpless has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.’
27th March 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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