Tomas Driukas jailed for shaking baby daughter to death – BBC News
‘A man who shook his baby daughter to death has been jailed for life after being found guilty of her murder.’
BBC News, 23rd February 2016
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‘A man who shook his baby daughter to death has been jailed for life after being found guilty of her murder.’
BBC News, 23rd February 2016
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‘A jealous new bride who “perhaps quite liked the idea of being Mrs Edwards, a solicitor’s wife” fatally stabbed her husband after he was told he was being made redundant, a court has heard.’
The Independent, 22nd February 2016
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‘Terri-Marie Palmer was convicted of murder and jailed for life for stabbing boyfriend Damon Searson to death.’
Daily Telegraph, 23rd February 2016
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‘The mother of one of the teenage boys convicted of murdering Garry Newlove has said she hopes a supreme court ruling against the so-called joint enterprise law will bolster the case for her son’s conviction to be thrown out.’
The Guardian, 20th February 2016
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‘A legal loophole is allowing criminals to lawfully obtain weapons and commit gun crimes including murders, police have said.’
BBC News, 22nd February 2016
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‘Prosecutors are reconsidering murder charges in the trial of eight people following a Supreme Court ruling on the joint enterprise law.’
BBC News, 19th February 2016
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‘The UK supreme court has made a landmark ruling after 30 years, but what are the implications?’
The Guardian, 18th February 2016
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R v Jogee (Appellant) [2016] UKSC 8 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 18th February 2016
‘Today the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the conjoined appeals of R v Jogee and Ruddock v R [2016] UKSC 8, having heard the latter sitting as the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Both cases were appeals against murder convictions founded on a discrete principle of secondary liability, sometimes referred to as ‘joint enterprise’, sometimes as ‘parasitic accessorial liability’ (‘PAL’).’
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th February 2016
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‘It is important to note that the draft judgment of the Supreme Court was embargoed from all apart from solicitors and counsel until today so our client, Ameen Jogee, and his family only found out about our success this morning.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th February 2016
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‘A killer van driver who reversed over his victim’s head during a violent confrontation has been found guilty of murder.’
BBC News, 15th February 2016
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‘A man and his two sons have been found guilty of murdering two teenagers and a baby in a house fire in Derbyshire.’
BBC News, 11th February 2016
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‘Described by his most high-profile victim’s family as “truly heinous”, who is serial killer Levi Bellfield?’
BBC News, 10th February 2016
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‘A man has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of strangling a vulnerable woman with her hair straighteners and then driving around with her body in the boot of his car for several days.’
The Guardian, 9th February 2016
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‘In a busy pub a man is brutally murdered. The killer doesn’t feel the need to hide his face. What does the silence of witnesses mean for a community struggling with gang violence?’
BBC News, 8th February 2016
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‘A knife-obsessed man who murdered a 14-year-old boy whose girlfriend he was infatuated with has been jailed for life, along with his accomplice.’
BBC News, 8th February 2016
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‘New forensic evidence reveals that a teenage army recruit found dead at Deepcut barracks may not have shot herself and could have been killed by someone else, it has emerged.’
The Independent, 8th February 2016
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‘A mechanic has been jailed for a minimum of 27 years for raping and strangling a trainee lawyer in an act of “unspeakable wickedness”.’
The Guardian, 1st February 2016
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‘R(C) v. Secretary of State for Justice [2016] UKSC 2. When is it right to keep the names of parties to litigation a secret? That was the difficult question the Supreme Court had to grapple with in this judgment, handed down on Wednesday. The decision to allow a double-murderer to remain anonymous led to outraged headlines in the tabloids. Yet the Court reached the unanimous conclusion that this was the right approach. Why?.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 29th January 2016
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