“A businessman told a woman he was taking her to a pop concert but then drugged her, put her unconscious body into a wheelchair and took her to a hotel where he raped her for nine hours, a court has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Drug prohibition began in the UK during World War I, when the possession, distribution and sale of cocaine and opium was outlawed. Cannabis was added to the list in 1920, in line with international treaties.”
BBC News, 5th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Black people are not just significantly more likely to be searched by police for drugs than their white peers, but face almost double the chance of being charged if any are found, according to a study of racial disparities in the way drug laws are enforced.”
The Guardian, 21st August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for more than six years for supplying a class A drug to a teenage girl who died after taking the substance.”
BBC News, 7th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Eleven men have been jailed for their roles in a conspiracy to supply cocaine and firearms from a bunker hidden under garden decking in a Somerset village.”
BBC News, 19th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“In a previous blog post on these pages, the case of Lindsay Sandiford was examined. Sandiford – a British citizen facing the death penalty in Indonesia – had asked the UK Government for funding to help her appeal, but was refused financial help. The Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Government, stating that the decision to provide legal aid to a British citizen abroad is a discretionary matter for the executive.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th July 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Plans to make it easier to prosecute people who drive under the influence of illegal drugs in England and Wales have been unveiled by the government.”
BBC News, 9th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v Sadique (Omar) [2013] EWCA Crim 1150 ; [2013] WLR (D) 269
“Section 46 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 created the offence of encouraging or assisting the commission of one or more offences. Its specific ingredients and the subsequent legislative provisions underlined that an indictment charging a section 46 offence of encouraging one or more offences was permissible.”
WLR Daily, 5th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A magistrate has been reprimanded for highlighting the dangers of cannabis after her own brother’s addiction to the drug led to his death.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Victims of the ‘vile’ offence of human trafficking who become involved in crime should have their cases dealt with by the justice system with the ‘greatest sensitivity’, leading judges said today.”
The Independent, 21st June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A former cannabis user is dismantling the garden shed where he used to grow his drugs after being banned from going inside it by a judge.”
BBC News, 19th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A gunman who tried to kill a disabled woman after shooting her partner dead in a ‘cold-blooded, deliberate execution’ has been jailed for a minimum of 42 years.”
The Guardian, 12th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The parents of a toddler, who died from a heroin overdose, have admitted causing his death.”
BBC News, 10th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The parents of a young woman who died after taking mephedrone have issued a warning against the so-called ‘party drug’ that ‘ripped our family apart’.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A judge’s decision to allow a convicted drug dealer who abandoned his children
the right to stay in Britain over his ‘human rights’ is at the centre of
mounting political protest.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Current policy on illegal drugs creates victims of crime and more prisoners at a cost to taxpayers, the Prison Governors Association (PGA) has argued.”
BBC News, 25th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.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
“Five men have today been sentenced at Warrington Crown Court for setting up a laboratory used to produce a synthetic substance called BMK. This is the first time that this method of BMK manufacture has been detected in the UK or continental Europe. BMK is not a controlled drug but is used to make amphetamine.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 14th March 2013
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Three men have been convicting of abducting a 13-year-old girl and forcing her to become their sex slave.”
The Guardian, 17th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who acted as full-time carer to his wife for the five years of their marriage has been jailed for administering an overdose of prescription drugs to her to give himself a day of respite.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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