“Magistrates are being advised by the courts service to disregard normal sentencing guidelines when dealing with those convicted of offences committed in the context of last week’s riots.”
The Guardian, 15th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s hamster by throwing it out of a window during a row has been given a suspended prison sentence.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th August 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An HIV expert has been jailed for keeping a 21-year-old woman as a slave.”
The Guardian, 11th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Amid the present – understandably febrile – state of public opinion we are hearing, as we often do in these circumstances, calls to short-circuit the cumbersome processes of the law in order to bring the rampaging rioters and looters to justice. The prime minister is reported as saying that a ‘major police operation’ is under way to track down looters caught on CCTV ‘picture by picture’, and that ‘phony concerns about human rights’ issues won’t stop them being published. He wants anyone convicted of violent disorder to be sent to prison.”
The Guardian, 11th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Offenders will be forced to spend longer in their homes as daily curfews are extended from 12 to 16 hours as part of tougher community sentences.”
Ministry of Justice, 8th August 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Our prisons are already bursting at the seams. More constructive would be restorative justice, writes Erwin James.”
The Guardian, 10th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A schoolworker, a hairdresser and an Exeter university student were among the first alleged rioters to be unmasked.”
The Independent, 11th August 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A woman has been sentenced to a minimum of 32 years for murdering her two young children and hiding their bodies in the boot of her car after the breakdown of her relationship with their father.”
Full story
The Guardian, 9th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The comedian who threw a foam pie at Rupert Murdoch has had his jail sentence reduced on appeal.”
The Indepedent, 5th August 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A cleaner who beat an 82-year-old widower to death with a rounders bat for his money before burying him in her garden was jailed for life today.”
The Independent, 8th August 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A bed and breakfast owner who spied on his guests through secret peepholes and made audio recordings of their intimate moments has been jailed for 18 weeks.”
The Guardian, 8th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Anthony Gray also ordered to pay back £53,000 he claimed to send children to boarding school after spilt from wife.”
The Guardian, 5th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The brother of Premier League footballer Titus Bramble has been jailed for four and a half years after being convicted of rape.”
The Independent, 5th August 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man jailed for six weeks for throwing shaving foam at News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch is appealing against his sentence.”
BBC News, 5th August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A 47-year-old man and his daughter have been sentenced for the second time for having sex.”
BBC News, 4th August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A paedophile described by police as the UK’s most prolific hoarder of pictures of child abuse was today given an indeterminate prison sentence.”
The Independent, 4th August 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A postman has been convicted of racism after calling Andy Murray, the Scottish tennis player, a ‘useless Jock’.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd August 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former drugs counsellor who visited schools to warn youngsters about the dangers has been jailed for 12 years for his role in a £1.3 million heroin smuggling plot.”
The Independent, 2nd August 2011
“A man who threw a plate of shaving foam at News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch has been jailed for six weeks.”
BBC News, 2nd August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two bungling drivers have been jailed for hatching a ‘ridiculously unsophisticated’ plot to get one of them a licence.”
Full story
The Guardian, 2nd August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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