“A report has cited a catalogue of failings by authorities after a mentally ill woman killed her four-year-old daughter.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Media groups have expressed disappointment after a coroner ruled that secret government files on the murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko would be examined in private.”
The Guardian, 27th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three teenage boys who kicked and punched a homeless man to death have been convicted of murder at Liverpool Crown Court.”
BBC News, 26th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v Asmelash [2013] EWCA Crim 157; [2013] WLR (D) 79
“There was nothing in the new statutory provisions relating to the partial defence to murder of loss of self control to suggest that Parliament intended that the normal rules which applied to voluntary intoxication should not apply. That did not mean that a defendant who had been drinking was deprived of the loss of control defence, it just meant that the defence had to be approached without reference to the defendant’s voluntary intoxication.”
WLR Daily, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A convicted sex offender who admitted harbouring fantasies about imprisoning and killing women has been jailed for life for the horrific rape and murder of a vet.”
The Guardian, 25th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The attorney general is taking legal action against several people who published photographs said to show one of James Bulger’s killers.”
BBC News, 25th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The man accused of the abduction and murder of missing five-year-old April Jones is due to stand trial.”
BBC News, 25th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been found guilty of murdering his friend at a house party almost 10 years after he became Britain’s youngest ever ASBO holder.”
The Independent, 12th February 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Bulger family still lives on a council estate in Kirkby and on the
surface of it very little has changed since Winifred last saw them two
decades ago when the children who had abducted and killed two year old
James were convicted of murder. But in the intervening years she often
reflected on the case and wondered about what had happened to the large
extended family and its campaign for justice for James.”
BBC Radio 4, 12th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Moors murderer Ian Brady’s mental health advocate will not face charges over
allegations she failed to disclose information about the location of one of his
victims’ remains.”
BBC News, 11th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Society’s view of young people still as venomous as 1993 says the lawyer who represented one of the two-year-old’s killers.”
The Guardian, 1th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two hitmen who stabbed an innocent schoolboy to death by mistake have been told they will spend at least 40 years each in prison before being eligible for parole.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman who killed her mother was freed under a secret fast-track process and went on to murder a stranger in the street.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The trial of a man accused of murdering two female police officers is expected to get under way today amid one of the tightest security operations ever mounted for a British court case.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A triple killer guilty of ‘exceptionally horrific’ and ‘unprovoked’ crimes has been granted anonymity to protect his human rights.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Twenty years ago, two 10-year-olds were prosecuted for murdering a toddler in Merseyside. Despite pressure from child protection campaigners, the UK’s minimum age of criminal responsibility remains one of the lowest in the world.”
The Guardian, 5th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The conviction of Robert and Lee Firkins for one of Cornwall’s most notorious
murders has been cast into doubt, the BBC has learned.”
BBC News, 5th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two women who tortured a retired bus conductor and left him to die have been found guilty of his murder.”
BBC News, 31st January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The brother of the former EastEnders actor Gemma McCluskie, whose mutilated remains were found in a London canal, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years after being convicted of her murder.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A coroner has said he would recommend random breath-testing for navy personnel following the shooting dead of an officer by a drunk submariner on a nuclear-powered submarine.”
The Guardian, 14th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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