“Two people have been jailed for life for the murder of a pensioner whose body they dumped in a chest freezer before plundering his bank account.”
BBC News, 26th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall’s prison sentence for indecently assaulting 13 girls was doubled to 30 months today after the Appeal Court ruled that the punishment was inadequate for the crimes that he had committed.”
The Independent, 26th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two men have been found guilty of murdering a man they stabbed to death when he tried to buy heroin from them.”
BBC News, 25th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“It is ‘worrying’ that a Justice Committee report suggests treating companies whose actions risk harm to the environment in the same way as those who cause actual harm, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th July 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“A teenager who killed an off-duty police officer has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in a young offenders institution.”
BBC News, 25th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A thief who stole from dying hospital patients, including one who was terminally ill with cancer, has been jailed for three years.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall’s 15-month prison sentence for indecently assaulting 13 girls was unduly lenient and he should serve longer in jail, the Attorney General told the Court of Appeal today.”
The Independent, 26th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A conman who murdered his lover and mutilated her body to cover his tracks has been sentenced to life, with a minimum prison term of 34 years.”
BBC News, 26th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Three of Britain’s most senior judges are considering whether the 15-month sentence handed to Stuart Hall for a string of sex offences was unduly lenient.”
The Guardian, 26th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ex-SAS sniper gets two-year suspended sentence for illegally possessing Glock 9mm and 300 rounds.”
The Guardian, 25th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Anish Anand, Amit Kumar, Sanjeev Mirajkar and Afsana Karim have today been sentenced at Croydon Crown Court for cheating the public revenue of more than £5m.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 22nd July 2013
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
Regina v Bestel; Regina v Raza; Regina v Bashir [2013] EWCA Crim 1305 ; [2013] WLR (D) 296
“A change in the law since the date of conviction or plea of guilty was not regarded as good reason for granting an extension of time in which to appeal unless substantial injustice would follow from application of the principle of finality. In cases in which the benefit from criminal conduct had been assessed on a basis which was, if considered in the light of a change in the law, disproportionate, substantial injustice would not be established if an application to the Crown Court for rescission of the confiscation order would ameliorate the stringency of the application of the finality principle.”
WLR Daily, 19th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Two brothers have been jailed for their roles in a ‘professionally planned and executed’ million-pound armed raid at Selfridges, in which the gang dressed in burqas.”
The Guardian, 22nd July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (Minter) v Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary [2013] EWCA Civ 697; [2013] WLR (D) 289
“A convicted sex offender on whom an extended sentence was passed pursuant to section 85(2) of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 became subject to the notification requirements of Part 2 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 for an indefinite period under section 82(1) of the 2003 Act, if the aggregate of the custodial term and the extension period was 30 months or more, even if the custodial term was less than 30 months.”
WLR Daily, 1st May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Eleven men have been jailed for their roles in a conspiracy to supply cocaine and firearms from a bunker hidden under garden decking in a Somerset village.”
BBC News, 19th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A serious case review will be launched after three generations of the same family were murdered in a house fire.”
BBC News, 19th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The role of investigative journalism was praised today as a top level computer consultant was jailed for 16 months in connection with a ‘pitiless deception’ in which he sought to con hard up students into having sex with him in return for falsely offering to pay their university fees.”
The Independent, 19th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man who battered a church organist to death as he walked to midnight mass has been jailed for a minimum of 25 years by a judge who told him: ‘Why you wished to inflict violence on another human being on Christmas Eve is known only to you.'”
The Guardian, 19th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Members of Dyers Chambers review developments across the spectrum of corporate crime and financial regulation, including updates on LIBOR, Sanctions, DPAs and Fraud Sentencing.”
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Dyers Chambers, 11th July 2013
Source: www.dyerschambers.com
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