Man is jailed over cold case rape – BBC News
“A man who was found guilty of raping a 41-year-old woman near Manchester city centre more than 11 years ago has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.”
BBC News, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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No VAT charged for carbon trades as Government widens anti-carousel fraud battle – OUT-LAW.com
“Criminals have been using EU green schemes to commit VAT carousel fraud, the Government has said. It has put an end to the charging of VAT when carbon emissions are traded to stop the activity, it said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
Criminal trials from 18th and 19th centuries go online for first time – The Times
“The records, published in a collaboration between the website and the National Archives, include every criminal trial in England and Wales that was reported to the Home Office between 1791 and 1892.”
The Times, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Britain’s torture role must be investigated, say MPs – The Independent
“Joint Commons and Lords committee expected to issue damning report on MI5’s part in the rendition of terror suspects.”
The Independent, 2nd August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Disinherited family win High Court battle for thousands – The Times
“The family of a wealthy philanthropist have won a High Court battle to reclaim their inheritance after she left her estate to a man she might never have known.”
The Times, 1st August 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
MoD payout decision ‘incredible’ – BBC News
“The former Head of the Army, General Sir Mike Jackson, has said he wants a review into compensation for injured troops to be independent.”
BBC News, 2nd August 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court orders Tchenguiz to return computer data – The Independent
“The multimillionaire businessman Vivian Imerman won a court order yesterday preventing his estranged wife’s brothers – property tycoons Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz – from using confidential information about his financial assets.”
The Independent, 1st August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Assisted suicide: Whose life is it anyway? – The Times
“Debbie Purdy was ‘ecstatic’. It was a strange reaction to the news that it had suddenly become easier to be killed in Zurich. But the real reason for her elation was that the news also meant it might soon become easier to be killed in Britain.”
The Times, 2nd August 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Schools pay £16,000 a day in compensation – Daily Telegraph
“Schools are paying out £16,000 a day in compensation to pupils injured in the playground and PE lessons, new figures show.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd August 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Purdy: ‘Now let me die in Britain’ – The Independent
“Pressure mounts for assisted suicide to be allowed on the NHS after MS sufferer’s landmark legal victory.”
The Independent, 1st August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Guidelines on assisted suicide ‘heading for challenge in the courts’ – The Times
“A former Lord Chancellor has warned that new guidelines on assisted suicide will expose the Director of Public Prosecutions to challenge in the courts.”
The Times, 1st August 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Judges rule on child discipline – BBC News
“Judges in the case of a girl who was kicked and slapped by her parents have drawn a line at which disciplining children becomes physical abuse.”
BBC News, 1st August 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Criminal Records Bureau errors lead to hundreds being branded criminals – Daily Telegraph
“More than 1,500 people have been wrongly branded as criminals or mistakenly given a clean record by the government agency set up to vet those working with children, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.”
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Daily Telegraph, 2nd August 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Government ‘would push for Gary McKinnon to serve sentence in UK’ – The Guardian
“The government will push for Gary McKinnon, the computer hacker fighting extradition to the US, to serve his sentence in a British prison if he is found guilty, Labour’s deputy leader said today.”
The Guardian, 2nd August 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
New bid to cut youth re-offending – BBC News
“More than £8m will be spent over the next two years in a bid to reduce youth re-offending in England and Wales, the government has announced.”
BBC News, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Probationers commit 1,167 crimes – The Independent
“Criminals being supervised by the probation service have committed more than 1,100 serious offences over the past two years.”
The Independent, 1st August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Two jailed over hit-and-run death – BBC News
“Two men have been jailed over the death of a grandfather who was hit by a car which failed to stop.”
BBC News, 31st July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Man incited internet child abuse – BBC News
“A British man who used an internet chatroom to incite a paedophile to sexually abuse an eight-year-old girl in the United States has been jailed.”
BBC News, 31st July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
High Court revokes control order – BBC News
“The government’s anti-terror strategy has suffered a blow after the High Court revoked the control order of a suspect accused of links to al-Qaeda.”
BBC News, 31st July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Teaching assistant who helped husband film girls jailed – Daily Telegraph
“Teaching assistant Rosemary Foxall who helped her husband secretly film young girls as they bathed at their home has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
