“A gang of abusers who subjected vulnerable girls in Oxford to years of rape, torture and extreme sexual violence has been convicted at the Old Bailey in one of the biggest child sexual exploitation trials in recent years.”
The Guardian, 14th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman who admitted impersonating a murdered former oil company worker has been given a community order.”
BBC News, 26th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Three British men have been jailed at the Old Bailey for engaging in conduct in preparation of acts of terrorism.”
BBC News, 25th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Strasbourg Court has ruled that a terrorist suspect detained in the United Kingdom’s Broadmoor hospital should not be extradited to the United States because of the risk that his mental condition would deteriorate there.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 21st April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Two men and a woman have been found guilty of the murder of a teenager whose body was found in a playing field in east London.”
BBC News, 17th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two men from Birmingham have pleaded guilty to being part of a terrorist cell whose leaders were planning a suicide bomb attack in the UK.”
BBC News, 10th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Mick Philpott was today jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years after being found guilty of killing six of his children in a house fire.”
The Independent, 4th April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Three men who killed a sex offender and buried him in a suitcase in a shallow grave have been convicted of murder.”
BBC News, 3rd April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The sentencing of Mick and Mairead Philpott, who killed their six children in a house fire, has been adjourned until Thursday.”
The Guardian, 3rd April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two men have been convicted of plotting to kill singer Joss Stone.”
BBC News, 3rd April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The parents accused of killing six children in a house fire have been convicted of their manslaughter.”
The Guardian, 2nd April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A corrupt detective has been found guilty of stealing large amounts of seized drugs and selling them back to drug dealers in a plot that made him and his brother around £600,000.”
The Guardian, 2nd April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina v Mahmood [2013] EWCA Crim 325; [2013] WLR (D) 116
“When calculating the expenditure incurred during a conspiracy, the statutory assumption in section 10(4) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 did not mean that each conspirator was treated as having incurred all of the expenditure and evidence was required about the particular conspirator who had incurred it.”
WLR Daily, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A man was jailed yesterday for his part in a sham marriage plot after he went on
a month-long ‘lads only’ holiday immediately after his supposed wedding.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Crown Prosecution Service accountant who fiddled £1 million of taxi fares has been warned that she faces a lengthy jail sentence after admitting fraud.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two men have been jailed for drugging and raping vulnerable under-age girls they found walking the streets.”
BBC News, 6th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A convicted fraudster has been sentenced to an extra 10 years in jail after failing to repay £14m in taxes.”
BBC News, 2nd March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Three members of a gang who targeted and raped prostitutes in Bradford have been jailed for 12 years.”
BBC News, 14th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police involved in the arrest of ‘Lostprophets’ vocalist Ian Watkins, in relation to an alleged plot to rape a baby, are under investigation over whether or not they acted quickly enough.”
The Independent, 7th February 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Andrzej Bojarski, Kate Tompkins and Cameron Crowe, barristers at 36 Bedford Row, combine their expertise in unravelling complex financial arrangements on divorce and prosecuting serious crimes to consider whether the criminal courts might offer opportunities for a spouse in an exceptional case when all conventional options in the family courts have been exhausted.”
Family Law Week, 6th February 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
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