‘Plans being considered by the Government will see inmates treated in specialist mental health units inside prisons in future.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th October 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A husband who swindled his brother out of a share of a £1.5m inheritance after his parents died has been jailed for four years and four months.’
The Guardian, 24th October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A horse breeder who forced a vulnerable man to work on his farm for 13 years without pay has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.’
The Independent, 24th October 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A bus driver wrongly accused of owning a film of a woman having sex with a tiger is trying to change the law on extreme pornography after a 14-month campaign to clear his name.’
The Independent, 26th October 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Two men have been sent to prison for throwing a deaf blind man and his brother on to railway tracks.’
BBC News, 23rd October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A failed footballer who enjoyed a champagne lifestyle by pretending to be a Chelsea player has been jailed for four years for a £163,000 fraud.’
The Independent, 22nd October 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Today [21 October], the Sentencing Council has published its proposals for how robbers should be sentenced by the courts.’
Sentencing Council, 21st October 2014
‘The House of Lords votes this week on a government proposal to increase the sentence for internet trolling to two years. We ask Baroness Deech QC – herself a victim of trolling – what she thinks of the idea.’
BBC Law in Action, 21st October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The news last week was that the Foreign Secretary has proposed a revival of a fourteenth century statute in order to prosecute British jihadists who travel to Iraq or Syria to fight. Cries of foul are coming from the usual quarters, and there’s even a protest that the Strasbourg Court would object, which, given the current controversy surrounding that tribunal, may be a good reason in itself for such a move.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 21st October 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Whatever happened to locking them up and throwing away the key? But the evidence suggests prison encourages re-offending.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st October 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A woman who called the emergency services 200 times in two years with fake symptoms to get pain medication was “depleting life-saving resources” from the health service, say officials.’
BBC News, 21st October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who savagely beat three sisters in a “sustained and vicious” hammer attack as they slept with their young children in a luxury London hotel has been found guilty of attempted murder.’
The Guardian, 21st October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘One in six foreign offenders living in the community have absconded, including 58 dangerous individuals who have been missing since 2010, the National Audit Office has revealed.’
The Guardian, 22nd October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man who brutally raped a woman at knifepoint, whom he had met on a dating website, has been sentenced to 21 years in jail.’
Full story
The Independent, 21st October 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Disgraced DJ Dave Lee Travis’s three-month suspended sentence for indecent assault will not be referred to the court of appeal, the attorney general has said.’
The Guardian, 21st October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Internet trolls could face two years in jail under new laws. But how does the British legal system currently police online abuse, asks Tom de Castella.’
Full story
BBC News, 20th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An internet troll accused of sending an antisemitic message to Labour MP Luciana Berger has been sentenced to four weeks in prison at Merseyside magistrates court.’
The Guardian, 20th October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Robbers who use or threaten to use guns and knives during crimes in England and Wales should expect to receive tougher jail sentences, new proposals suggest.’
BBC News, 21st October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A 19-year-old Russian student who sparked a major scare after making explosives in his room has been jailed.’
BBC News, 17th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An Elvis impersonator who sparked a 24-hour armed police manhunt that led to a primary school being closed has been jailed for illegal gun possession.’
BBC News, 17th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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