‘A 75-year-old man who posed as a 16-year-old boy on social media to groom a young girl into have sex with him has been jailed for 10 years.’
BBC News, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v Doran and another [2015] EWCA Crim 384; [2015] WLR (D) 129
‘A surveillance operation mounted by Revenue and Customs because they suspected that a consignment of cigarettes were being imported with the purpose of evading the duty payable did not result in a disconnection between the goods and the importers. Revenue and Customs were thereby monitoring the import, not controlling it, so that a judge was entitled to find that the importers were “holding” the goods within the meaning of regulation 13(1) of the Tobacco Products Regulations 2001 and, by that means, were retaining their connection with the goods at the excise duty point.’
WLR Daily, 17th March 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for murdering a teenage footballer by stabbing him in the neck with a broken bottle.’
BBC News, 20th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for life for the attempted murder of his partner in Cardiff.’
BBC News, 20th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A teenager who was arrested on a London street carrying a knife and hammer in his bag and said he was en route to behead a soldier has been jailed for 22 years.’
The Guardian, 20th March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man who robbed a convenience store brandishing a toy hand gun has been jailed.’
BBC News, 20th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A rapist has been handed a life sentence after he was identified by one of his victims when she spotted his picture on Facebook.’
The Independent, 21st March 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Married father Michael Nartey sentenced after terrorising five lovers – some of whom also had children by him – in vile campaign of abusive text messages.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd March 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A “mole” at the Ministry of Defence who made £100,000 from leaking stories to the Sun has been jailed for 12 months, it can now be reported after verdicts were delivered in a related trial.’
The Guardian, 20th March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘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
‘A mother-of-two who claimed voices in her head told her to set fire to her home with her children inside has been jailed.’
BBC News, 18th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A doctor who gave the president of a university polo club a cocktail of drugs leading him to choke to death on a sock has been jailed.’
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 18th March 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A man who killed his ex-partner by hitting her with a hockey stick in front of their children has been sentenced to life in prison.’
BBC News, 18th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for three years for trying to arrange the sexual abuse of a child while working at the south pole.’
The Guardian, 18th March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A woman who led drinking and driving awareness courses for more than 20 years has been sentenced for committing the offence herself.’
Full story
BBC News, 17th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The justice secretary has been accused of complacency by a cross-party group of MPs for denying any link between prison staffing cuts and a sudden rise in self-inflicted deaths and violence inside jails in England and Wales.’
The Guardian, 18th March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Sentencing Council issued a dangerous dog offences guideline in August 2012. In May 2014 amendments to the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 were enacted through the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, which made such substantial changes to the offence and the maximum penalties that the Council considered it would be appropriate to revise comprehensively the existing guideline.
Sentencing Council, 17th March 2015
Source: http://consult.justice.gov.uk
‘People who breed dogs to be aggressive or used as weapons could be among those most severely punished under new dangerous dog sentencing guidelines. ‘
BBC News, 17th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A law degree drop-out has been jailed for life for repeatedly battering a stranger’s head with a brick while in a “drug-induced psychosis”.’
BBC News, 16th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A woman who stole nearly £300,000 from one of Cambridge’s most famous colleges as she squandered more than £6 million on bingo has been jailed.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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