“Two members of a gang jailed for their part in stealing £53m in Britain’s biggest cash robbery have failed in bids to overturn their convictions.”
BBC News, 25th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A spurned lover who repeatedly stabbed a mother-of-two a month after he was bailed following a previous assault on her was jailed for eight years today.”
The Independent, 25th November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A gang of men from Derby has been convicted of systematically grooming and sexually abusing teenage girls.”
BBC News, 24th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two men have been jailed after a haul of drugs worth £2.6m was discovered in a house in Bedford.”
BBC News, 24th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for life for stabbing another man 11 times in the neck.”
BBC News, 24th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who flicked his blood over hospital staff in an A&E unit has been sentenced to 200 hours community service.”
BBC News, 23rd November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former paratrooper has been jailed after stealing campaign medals from his comrades then selling them on eBay.”
BBC News, 23rd November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A computer hacker who took control of his victims’ webcams was jailed for 18 months today.”
The Guardian, 23rd November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A mother jailed for falsely retracting allegations that she had been raped six times by her husband was freed today on appeal.”
The Guardian, 23rd November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A murderer who killed a transgender prostitute has been given an indefinite jail term for raping another woman in Brighton five weeks earlier.”
BBC News, 22nd November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A female teaching assistant who had sex with two male pupils was jailed for 16 months today.”
The Independent, 22nd November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A teenage girl who vandalised a city’s cenotaph has been told her actions were ‘despicable’.”
BBC News, 18th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Four men have been jailed after counterfeit bank notes worth more than £1m were uncovered by police.”
BBC news, 17th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man was jailed for life today for the murder of his girlfriend’s toddler, whom he viciously attacked after her crying interrupted him playing on his Xbox computer game.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A lorry driver who crushed a cyclist while chatting on his mobile phone with ‘the most godawful hangover’ was today jailed for seven years and disqualified from driving for life.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A 15-year-old boy who killed a suspected paedophile ‘to teach him a lesson’ has been given a life sentence.”
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two men were jailed for life today for murdering a shopkeeper they battered to death with wine bottles from his shelves during a botched robbery.”
The Independent, 16th November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina v Inglis [2010] EWCA Crim 2637; [2010] WLR (D) 289
“When determining the minimum specified term to be served by an individual who genuinely believed that the murder she had committed constituted an act of mercy, the facts that there had been a significant degree of planning or premeditation, that the victim had been particularly vulnerable because of disability and that there had been abuse of a position of trust should not be taken to be aggravating factors.”
WLR Daily, 15th November 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Two men have been jailed for 13 years and four months each after they admitted possession of heroin with an estimated street value of £3.5m.”
BBC News, 12th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A mother who gave her severely disabled son a lethal heroin injection to end his ‘living hell’ lost her appeal against her life sentence for murder today, but has had her sentenced reduced to five years.”
The Guardian, 12th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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