‘A man avoids jail after confessing to a psychiatrist that he smothered his mother as she was dying of lung cancer in a Dorset hospital.’
Daily Telegraph, 20th March 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A Paddy Power advert that offered a “money back if he walks” guarantee for betting on the Oscar Pistorius murder trial broke rules and brought the UK’s advertising industry into disrepute, the regulator has found.’
The Independent, 19th March 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A burglar who attacked an 87-year-old World War Two veteran in his bed has been jailed for a minimum of 18-years after being found guilty of murder. Widower Frank Worsley, who served with the Royal Navy in the Far East, was “repeatedly beaten” about the face by cocaine user Daniel Crompton, 24.’
Daily Telegraph, 18th March 2014
Source: www.teelgraph.co.uk
‘A couple were jailed on Friday for glorifying the murder of the soldier Lee Rigby in videos posted on YouTube that were “offensive in the extreme”. Royal Barnes, 23, and his wife Rebekah Dawson, 22, of Hackney, north-east London, recorded and uploaded three videos shortly after the murder in Woolwich, south-east London, last May.’
The Guardian, 14th March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘ Barry George, the man wrongly accused of murdering TV presenter Jill Dando, is taking his £1 million compensation claim to the European Court of Human Rights. Mr George, 53, is seeking compensation for loss of earnings and wrongful imprisonment, after spending eight years in jail for a crime he did not commit.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A woman who was kidnapped and killed by her ex-husband “could have been afforded greater protection”, a report is expected to say.’
BBC News, 5th March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The police watchdog has launched an investigation into the contact that officers had with hairdresser Hollie Gazzard before she was fatally stabbed.’
The Guardian, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A teenager who murdered his grandmother and tried to kill his grandfather while high on drugs has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Witnesses against a man charged with being part of a mob that hacked a police officer to death almost 30 years ago themselves took part in the attack and have been given immunity from prosecution, a jury has heard.’
The Guardian, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘PC Keith Blakelock was stabbed to death in the Broadwater Farm riot in Tottenham, north London, on 6 October 1985. But what caused the riots?’
BBC News, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man accused of arranging the murder of his wife on their honeymoon has lost his latest appeal against extradition.’
BBC News, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Joanne Dennehy has become the first woman ordered to die behind bars by a judge, who told the murderer of three men she was “a cruel, calculating, selfish and manipulative serial killer”.’
The Guardian, 28th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man who killed an organist who was walking to church has lost an appeal against his minimum 25-year tariff.’
BBC News, 27th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The two terrorists who murdered British soldier Lee Rigby on a south London street fought with guards yesterday in the dock of the court yards from the grieving family of the soldier they butchered as a judge sentenced the mastermind of the attack to die in prison.’
The Guardian, 26th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A prolific burglar has been convicted of murdering a grandfather whom he stabbed to death in his London home.’
BBC News, 25th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland has said he is appalled at the government’s “grubby secret deal” on IRA “on-the-run” cases. He was speaking after the case of a man accused of the IRA Hyde Park bomb collapsed following what victims’ families called “a monumental blunder”. Donegal man John Downey denied killing four soldiers in the 1982 bomb. The case collapsed because government officials mistakenly told him he was no longer a wanted man.’
BBC News, 26th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale were convicted of murdering Fusilier Lee Rigby last year. Sentencing was adjourned, however, until such time as the domestic courts had ruled on the legality of the whole life tariff following the Strasbourg ruling in Vinter v UK.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 25th February 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘A man who admitted stabbing his boss 51 times before going on a “rampage” with a machete has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 21st February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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