‘The London Borough of Redbridge is to share information and intelligence with other councils and HM Revenue and Customs, after three people were found guilty of a £1.4m housing benefit fraud.’
Local Government Lawyer, 15th March 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
’16 Birmingham gang members who supplied guns and ammunition to criminals across the country will be spending over 50 more years in prison following a Court of Appeal decision today.’
Attorney General’s Office, 9th March 2016
Source: www.gov.uk/ago
‘Tom Hayes, a former UBS and Citigroup trader serving an 11-year jail sentence for conspiring to rig Libor global interest rates, has been blocked from appealing to the supreme court against his conviction.’
The Guardian, 8th March 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Five men have been jailed for up to seven years for the £14m Hatton Garden safety deposit box jewellery raid.’
BBC News, 9th March 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Three men involved in dumping the body of a man in a canal and emptying his bank account have been jailed.’
The Guardian, 8th March 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A former X Factor contestant has been found guilty of laundering £20,000 from a phone scam that defrauded 18 pensioners across southern England.’
BBC News. 3rd March 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘It cost £15m and took five years but what did Operation Elveden – the police investigation into inappropriate payments to police and public officials by journalists – aim to achieve?’
BBC News, 26th February 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Scotland Yard’s investigation into payments by journalists to police and other public officials has officially closed after five years.’
The Guardian, 26th February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The ringleader of a child sex grooming gang has appealed against deportation from Britain on human rights grounds.’
BBC News, 16 February 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A pilot nicknamed Biggles has been jailed for 19 years for smuggling £33.5m worth of cocaine into Britain.’
The Guardian, 9th February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Twelve men who sexually exploited a vulnerable teenage girl in West Yorkshire have received jail sentences of up to 20 years.’
BBC News, 8th February 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A knife-obsessed man who murdered a 14-year-old boy whose girlfriend he was infatuated with has been jailed for life, along with his accomplice.’
BBC News, 8th February 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Police recover vehicles worth more than £1.5 million after smashing the car ringing gang which was being orchestrated from a prison cell.’
Daily Telegraph, 1st February 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Five former brokers, who were accused of helping the convicted trader Tom Hayes to rig benchmark interest rates, have walked free after a jury acquitted them.’
The Independent, 28th January 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Two men who conned a woman out of £1.6m by using a fictional character to contact her on a dating website have been jailed.’
BBC News, 8th January 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The thieves cost farmers thousands and disrupted pedigree bloodlines.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The relationship that the British security services forged with Muammar Gaddafi’s regime a decade ago amounted to “a criminal conspiracy with a foreign dictator”, according to evidence before the high court, where a dozen Libyan dissidents who were subsequently targeted by the British authorities are bringing a claim for damages.’
The Guardian, 16th December 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has today increased the unduly lenient sentences of Richard Copeland, Glenn Milburn and Ian Froom for a spate of burglaries in the north east of England.’
Attorney General’s Office, 10th December 2015
Source: www.gov.uk/ago
‘Four men have been convicted over a phone scam carried out across the south of England that defrauded 18 pensioners out of a total of £600,000.’
BBC News, 10th December 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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