‘A man has been found guilty of threatening a Labour MP after he held a makeshift gallows with a noose outside parliament and said: “This is what we do to traitors.”’
The Guardian, 3rd May 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An anti-tree felling campaigner has been convicted of obstructing police for failing to give his name and address when he was being arrested.’
BBC News, 9th July 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A taxi driver operating in Sandwell has been found guilty of refusing to take a blind man and his guide dog.’
Local Government Lawyer, 22nd January 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Two married constables working for Lancashire Police were sentenced last month for stealing police data about car crashes and selling it to claims firms for £363,000.’
Legal Futures, 8th November 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The international director of the campaign organisation Cage has been convicted of a terrorist offence after refusing to hand over passwords to his mobile phone and laptop.’
The Guardian, 25th September 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A judge told shoplifter: “I didn’t know that people who were on benefits were into Champagne?”‘
Daily Telegraph, 4th September 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A brothel run from a Dorset village was uncovered by police after a client collapsed, leading a woman who helped run the premises to ring 999.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th July 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A primary school teaching assistant who stole money intended for charity to pay off her son’s drug dealer will be able to continue her career.’
Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A judge accused warring neighbours of having “handbags in the cul-de-sac” after an 81-year-old man attacked a man living next door with a rounders bat.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th March 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A children’s dance teacher who invented a dying nine-year-old girl and pretended to raise cash to help her complete her bucket list has been spared jail.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th September 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘George Ostle’s parents say if Lord Janner was not fit to stand trial then neither was their autistic son who has the mental age of a ten-year-old.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th May 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Michelle Dodd convicted after Stockport magistrates hear of her long-standing dispute with neighbour over ‘noisy’ children playing outside on trampoline.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Two pensioners in their 80s have been convicted of criminal damage after deliberately cutting back their neighbour’s clematis with secateurs against her wishes.’
The Independent, 14th January 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A serious case review is launched after mass killer Barry Williams is able to disappear following his release from Broadmoor by changing his name to Harry Street.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th October 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A former aide to George Galloway MP who admitted obtaining personal data illegally has received a 12-month conditional discharge.’
BBC News, 31st July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An Oxford University academic who penetrated London’s secret underground tunnels and scaled its tallest skyscrapers for a geography PhD has been spared a possible jail sentence, in a qualified victory for academic freedom.’
The Guardian, 22nd May 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Woman sentenced to 18-month conditional discharge for distributing posters of her ex-boyfriend claimIing that he is a ‘love rat’.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd April 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A landlord who installed a hidden camera in his bathroom so he could spy on female students showering has avoided a jail sentence.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th February 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The daughter of musicians Ray Davies and Chrissie Hynde has been found guilty after supergluing herself to a fellow anti-fracking protester outside the main gate of an exploratory oil drilling site.’
The Guardian, 24th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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