“A former serviceman and miner who sexually assaulted four girls in south Wales between 1949 and 1973 has been jailed for 11 years.”
BBC News, 26th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Six out of 11 care workers who admitted a total of 38 charges of neglect or abuse of patients at a private hospital have been jailed.”
BBC News, 26th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Suffolk police constable who amassed a collection of 649 rare birds’ eggs has been given a suspended jail term.”
BBC News, 25th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who murdered his five-year-old son after subjecting him to weeks of violence has been jailed for life.”
BBC News, 25th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Tougher community sentences, which almost all include an element of punishment and could see more convicted offenders wearing GPS tags to monitor their location, will be announced on Tuesday.”
The Guardian, 23rd October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The justice secretary has defended David Cameron’s plan to outsource large swaths of the probation service to private companies, such as G4S and A4e, along with charities and voluntary groups.”
The Guardian, 22nd October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A rapist who cheated justice for nearly 25 years has been jailed because of advances in DNA profiling.”
The Independent, 20th October 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A taxi driver has been jailed for a minimum of 25 years after admitting the ‘savage and brutal’ sexually-motivated murder of a young woman — but has escaped possible prosecution over a second killing despite leading police to the victim’s body.”
The Guardian, 19th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who disrupted this year’s University Boat Race has been jailed for six months for causing a public nuisance.”
BBC News, 19th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man described as sexually obsessive and predatory has been given a life sentence for murdering a young woman and sexually assaulting another.”
BBC News, 18th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An 18-year-old man who stabbed a 64-year-old widower 72 times in his bungalow after meeting him on a website has been jailed for life for murder.”
BBC News, 16th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Price v Cheshire East Borough Council: [2012] WLR (D) 275
“It was wrong in law, when determining mode of trial, for justices to directly apply Sentencing Council guidelines for a different offence to that faced by the defendant unless the sentencing guidelines were directly analogous or if there was a similar level of seriousness.”
WLR Daily, 11th October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A taxi driver has been jailed for life for stabbing his pregnant lover to death in Rochdale.”
BBC News, 15th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for 10 years for stabbing his neighbour to death following a series of disputes over noise in St Helens.”
BBC News, 15th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Four ‘highly manipulative, evil and dangerous’ members of a paedophile ring have been jailed indefinitely.”
BBC News 15th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The penalties for drug misuse should be relaxed so that possession of small amounts would no longer be a criminal offence, the government has been urged.”
BBC News, 15th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man from Greater Manchester who wore a T-shirt daubed with offensive comments about the killing of two police officers has been jailed.”
BBC News, 11th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Sentencing Council has launched a short animated film for victims and witnesses of crime explaining how sentencing works and the types of sentence offenders can get. As well as being available to view online, it will also be used by Victim Support’s Witness Service volunteers at courts when they are helping victims and witnesses.”
Sentencing Council, 10th October 2012
“It is hard to reconcile the comedian receiving community service with Matthew Woods facing a 12 weeks custodial sentence.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Today I am talking to John Cooper QC. The DPP is holding a series of round table meetings to consider where the law should be in relation to online social media spoken and written. Rather strangely – while the DPP invited lawyers who have been involved in recent high profile cases and some lawyers who weren’t even peripherally involved – Keir Starmer QC did not extend an invitation to leading criminal silk John Copper QC who actually led the team in the celebrated Paul Chambers Twitterjoketrial case – which the team won.”
Charon QC, 10th October 2012
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
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