‘Convicted criminals in England and Wales will have to pay up to £1,200 towards the cost of their court case under new rules, it has been revealed.’
BBC News, 27th March 2015
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‘The disgraced former hedge fund manager Julian Rifat was yesterday sentenced to 19 months in jail for taking part in a £285,000 insider trading scandal.’
The Independent, 20th March 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The killer of Joanna Yeates has admitted four charges of possessing indecent images of children. Dutch engineer Vincent Tabak, 37, was jailed for life in October 2011 after being convicted of killing his 25-year-old neighbour at her flat in Clifton, Bristol.’
The Guardian, 2nd March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man who threatened to “chop the heads off” two female cadets on Tyneside has been given a suspended jail sentence.’
BBC News, 23rd February 2015
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‘A court’s obligation to follow any relevant sentencing guidelines unless satisfied that it would be contrary to the interests of justice to do so continued to apply where the offender was suffering from a mental disorder.’
WLR Daily, 4th February 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘An “evil” husband who murdered his wife before hiding her body in a cupboard has been jailed for at least 23 years.’
BBC News, 9th February 2015
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‘Daniel Ellis sentenced to 34 months after ‘staggering’ home and putting lighter to firework fuse that wrecked family house in North Wales’
Daily Telegraph, 5th February 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A woman who admitted a $1m (£640,000) expenses fraud and money-laundering will not spend any more time in jail.’
BBC News, 29th January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A butcher has been fined £3,000 after a teenage apprentice’s hand was chopped off in a mincing machine.’
BBC News, 21st January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A killer who bludgeoned and stabbed a woman to death, then kept the location of her remains secret for 14 years, has been jailed.’
BBC News, 19th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A labourer has been jailed for eight months for driving his girlfriend’s Volkswagen Polo on to the Brands Hatch circuit during a race.’
The Guardian, 17th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A former news editor at the News of the World has been sentenced to eight months in prison after he pleaded guilty to plotting to hack the phones of public figures, sports stars and celebrities.’
The Guardian, 7th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A gamekeeper convicted of “the worst case of bird of prey poisoning” recorded in England has been given a 10-week suspended sentence.’
BBC News, 6th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A junior doctor working in paediatrics has admitted sexually abusing boys as young as 12.’
BBC News, 31st October 2014
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‘An internet troll accused of sending an antisemitic message to Labour MP Luciana Berger has been sentenced to four weeks in prison at Merseyside magistrates court.’
The Guardian, 20th October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A hovercraft pilot who transported passengers across the Solent while nearly three times the legal alcohol limit has been jailed for eight months.’
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BBC News, 10th October 2014
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‘A man has been jailed for nine years for killing his partner’s two-year-old daughter.’
BBC News, 10th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘One of the defendants due to face charges in a partly secret trial has pleaded guilty to possessing a terrorist document.’
The Guardian, 9th October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A Newport man has been jailed for life after he stabbed and strangled his girlfriend as she lay in the bath.’
BBC News, 6th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A former News of the World news executive has admitted he was involved in phone hacking, 16 months after pleading not guilty to the crime in the Old Bailey. Ian Edmondson’s about-turn marks the final chapter in the phone-hacking trial that ended in June with the conviction of Andy Coulson and the acquittal of Rebekah Brooks, both former New of the World editors.’
The Guardian, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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