“A Facebook user who urged young people to ‘put Manchester on the map’ by rioting during the summer disturbances has been jailed for three years.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke has today announced a new sentencing regime.”
Ministry of Justice, 26th October 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A woman who drove her car into her husband in Suffolk, killing him, has been given a suspended jail sentence.”
BBC News, 27th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Automatic jail sentences will be introduced for 16 and 17-year-olds who commit knife crimes in a sweeping law and order package announced last night by Kenneth Clarke, the Justice Secretary.”
The Independent, 27th October 2011
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“Drug dealers from Liverpool and London who plotted to flood the UK with £4bn of cocaine have been jailed.”
BBC News, 26th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ken Clarke, the justice secretary, is heading for a fresh clash with his cabinet colleague, Theresa May and Tory backbenchers after publicly criticising moves to impose mandatory prison sentences on teenagers found with a knife.”
The Guardian, 25th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A knifeman described as one of the most dangerous men in Britain has been jailed for life for trying to kill two police officers.”
The Guardian, 25th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who spent a decade pretending to be a doctor at an NHS trust in south London has been jailed for 27 months.”
BBC News, 24th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two teenage girls have been jailed for life for the murder of a man during a drunken row in Northumberland.”
BBC News, 21st October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two ringleaders of a gang which smuggled guns into the UK from the United States have each been jailed for 24 years. Mohammed Tariq, 33, and Atique Arif, 32, were sentenced at Bradford crown court along with six other men who were sent to prison for up to 12 years. The gang imported guns concealed with electrical equipment including DVD players and portable radios. Police said they smuggled 13 firearms into the UK over a 12-month period. West Yorkshire police said the investigation – Operation Lapworth – began in July last year when two parcels destined for addresses in the Bradford area were intercepted at East Midlands airport. Detectives said the conspiracy began when Tariq ordered a Taser gun from an American website.”
The Guardian, 21st October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A double rapist caught nearly 20 years after his first rape was jailed for 16 years today.”
The Independent, 21st October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two killers who shot a man in a ‘roadside execution’ in front of his wife in south London have been jailed.”
BBC News, 21st October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Screwdriver killer Leigh Clift was brought back to court and convicted of murder following a change in a the law allowing him to be charged with a different offence over the same attack on Milton Keynes man Jonathan Barton.”
BBC News, 21st October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Victims’ Commissioner publishes findings from research with victims of crime about their experiences of court and sentencing.”
Victims’ Commissioner, 20th October 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Recent pronouncements by Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice, have been momentous, particularly his statements about the Human Rights Act.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man convicted of murder when his victim died nine years after he was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver has been jailed for at least six years.”
BBC News, 20th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Severe punishment for those taking part in public disorder is right, as a matter of law and of common sense.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“If we know one thing for certain about the England riots, it’s that the public have been urging the courts to dish out some serious punishment.”
BBC News, 18th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Sentencing Council has published a report with results from the Crown Court Sentencing Survey, an ongoing data collection exercise of sentencing decisions made in the Crown Court that is required for the Council to comply with the terms of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
The report presents the findings of the first six months of the survey. It can be accessed here.”
Sentencing Council, 18th October 2011
“The Court of Appeal has rejected seven of 10 sentence appeals by people jailed over August’s rioting in England.”
BBC News, 18th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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