‘A judge has warned that the Internet cannot be used as a “babysitter” as he sentenced a 12-year-old for raping his younger sister after watching porn at school.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Black people are more likely to be charged and sent to prison than white people – and to receive longer custodial sentences, according to official Ministry of Justice statistics.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 25th November 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A top judge has been criticised for questioning the value of short prison sentences, saying they were ineffective and disrupted criminals’ home lives. Lord Neuberger, president of the Supreme Court, dismissed the idea jail time could help reform criminals and instead said a short stay behind bars could be “disruptive” for the prisoner’s job and family life.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A pensioner who had more than a million child abuse images and filmed his own attacks on young girls has been jailed for 19 years.’
BBC News, 25th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A father and son convicted of illegal money lending have been ordered to pay back more than £300,000 in assets.’
Local Government Lawyer, 25th November 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A teacher has been jailed for two years after a secret four-year relationship with a 14-year-old female pupil.’
BBC News, 22nd November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An experienced pilot who was found to be more than three times the permitted alcohol level as he was about to fly an Airbus with 156 people on board to Pakistan has been jailed for nine months. he judge sentencing Irfan Faiz, 55, said it was ”extraordinary” that the rules in Pakistan only stated that there should be a 12-hour gap between ”bottle and throttle”, no matter how much the pilot had drunk.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for life with a minimum 25 years for the murder of a Wrexham woman during a burglary.’
BBC News, 22nd November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘One of two men jailed for raping a 14-year-old boy in the toilet of a central Manchester department store has had his prison sentence cut.’
BBC News, 21st November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“In early November 2013, Marine A (as he is known) was convicted by a court martial of murdering a badly wounded Taliban insurgent by shooting him in the chest.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 20th November 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“A 22-year-old woman who posted about ‘bloody cyclists’ on Twitter hours after knocking a cyclist off his bike has been convicted of failing to stop and failing to report an accident, but cleared of driving without due care and attention at Norfolk Magistrates Court today.”
The Independent, 19th November 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“When sentencing a defendant to a term of imprisonment, section 240(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 provided that the court must direct that, subject to section 240(4), time served in custody on remand should count as time served by him as part of the sentence. Section 240(4)(a) provided that section 240(3) did not apply if while on remand the defendant was a serving prisoner, but there was no separate order under section 240(4). That subsection merely restricted the discretion of the court; the only order a court could make was one under section 240(3).”
WLR Daily, 12th November 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A benefits fraudster who fled to the Costa del Sol ahead of sentencing in 2008 has been jailed for three years. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith labelled it ‘outrageous’ that 70-year-old Norman Brennan had been in Spain for five years, and vowed to bring the pensioner back to face justice.”
The Independent, 18th November 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The senior British Airways cabin crew member smashed a glass in the pilot’s face when he told her their affair was over.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Moss v The Queen: [2013] UKPC 32; [2013] WLR (D) 434
“A criminal court normally had a duty to give a convicted defendant the opportunity to make representations before sentence upon him was passed, however little there might appear to be available to be said on his behalf, and an omission to do so was a serious breach of procedural fairness. The Privy Council so held in allowing an appeal by the defendant, Dominique Moss, against a sentence of 25 years’ imprisonment imposed by the Court of Appeal of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (Hall CJ, Ganpatsingh and Osadebay JJA) on 28 October 2004 when it had allowed his appeal against his conviction for murder on 6 April 2004 (Isaacs J and a jury) and substituted a conviction for manslaughter.”
WLR Daily, 13th November 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A science teacher who blackmailed girls into sending him sexually explicit photos of themselves has been jailed for six years.”
BBC news, 14th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Fines handed to companies convicted of fraud or other financial crimes should be calculated as a percentage of turnover, rather than with reference to the amount of financial harm caused, a committee of MPs has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th November 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“A pensioner who went on the run after conning a blind widow out of her £2.2m estate has been jailed for 10 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man who killed a pensioner when he set fire to a block of flats has been jailed for at least 21 years.”
BBC News, 12th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A UK businessman who sold fake bomb detectors around the world has lost a challenge against his 10-year sentence.”
BBC News, 12th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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