“The attorney general is to ask the court of appeal to increase the sentences handed down in the Baby Peter case after several complaints from child welfare organisations and the public that they were disappointingly short.”
The Guardian, 27th May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The mother of Baby Peter was branded ‘manipulative and self-centred’ by an Old Bailey judge yesterday who sentenced her to at least five years in prison for the death of her son.”
The Independent, 23rd May 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Mother Michelle Brown who left her 22-month-old daughter home alone to die in a fire while she attended a court hearing has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
R v Khan and others [2009] EWCA Crim 2; [2009] WLR (D) 8
“Where a member of the same household as a child or vulnerable adult was charged with allowing his or her death, the question whether the defendant had had frequent contact with him or her was a free-standing question, unrelated to issues whether that person had been, or ought to have been, aware of the risk of serious harm to the child or vulnerable adult, and whether the unlawful act had occurred in circumstances of the kind which the defendant had foreseen or ought to have foreseen.”
WLR Daily, 16th January 2009
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.
“Two people who tortured a 16-month-old baby boy to death, causing him ‘unimaginable agony’, were jailed on Friday under a new law.”
Reuters, 7th September 2007
Source: www.reuters.com
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