“Screwdriver killer Leigh Clift was brought back to court and convicted of murder following a change in a the law allowing him to be charged with a different offence over the same attack on Milton Keynes man Jonathan Barton.”
BBC News, 21st October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man convicted of murder when his victim died nine years after he was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver has been jailed for at least six years.”
BBC News, 20th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A couple have been jailed for their part in the torture of a man who stabbed himself in the chest to try to kill himself after being kept prisoner.”
BBC News, 4th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who stabbed a police officer in south London has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for the offence.”
BBC News, 16th August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who inflicted ‘catastrophic injuries’ with a single punch in an unprovoked attack has been jailed for three years.”
The Independent, 16th August 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A Staffordshire man who had unprotected sex with his partner knowing he had HIV has been jailed for four years.”
BBC News, 25th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Four Muslim men who assaulted a religious education teacher because they did not approve of him teaching Muslim girls have been jailed.”
BBC News, 26th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who ploughed into a crowd of revellers outside a bar in Rochdale has been jailed indefinitely.”
BBC News, 20th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Jones v First-tier Tribunal [2011] EWCA Civ 400; [2011] WLR (D) 131
“An offence of inflicting grevious bodily harm, contrary to section 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, was a ‘crime of violence’ for the purposes of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2001.”
WLR Daily, 12th April 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A civilian police worker has been jailed for three years for throwing scalding water over a prisoner in a police station cell.”
The Guardian, 8th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A mother cleared of killing her children in a house fire wept as she walked free from court and said she just wanted to start piecing her life back together.”
The Guardian, 22nd February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three convicted killers have been given concurrent life sentences for a revenge attack on a former Bosnian Serb general in a British high-security jail.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who shot a boy in the neck with an air rifle has been cleared of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and unlawful wounding.”
BBC News, 4th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who was jailed for six years for a knife attack on a Premier League footballer has had his jail term cut.”
BBC News, 17th December 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A 34-year-old woman from Suffolk found guilty of injuring a baby in her care has won the first stage of an Appeal Court bid to clear her name.”
BBC News, 9th December 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man given a suspended sentence for repeatedly kicking his pregnant ex-girlfriend in the head has been jailed for four years after an appeal.”
BBC News, 9th December 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for a second time for an attack on a man who later died from his injuries.”
BBC News, 11th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teenager who left a man severely paralysed and able to communicate only by blinking has been spared jail after a judge ruled it would not be ‘useful’.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd October 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A jail term imposed on a man who pushed a woman on to a live railway track in Kent after a row about him smoking was ‘fully justified’, a court has ruled.”
BBC News, 29th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A 31-year-old man was jailed today after infecting a young woman with HIV.”
The Independent, 31st August 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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