“A student who threw a computer monitor through a bank window as part of last year’s G20 protests was jailed for two-and-a-half years today.”
The Independent, 12th February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A woman who breached an injunction banning her from keeping dogs at her home has been handed a prison sentence.”
BBC News, 11th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The last seven members of a drugs gang who conspired to transport heroin with a street value of £700,000 into south Wales have been sentenced.”
BBC News, 11th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A hospice volunteer in Birmingham has been given a community sentence after he was found with 40,530 pornographic images, many of which were of children.”
BBC News, 11th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A sex attacker who targeted women on the London Underground in ‘vigorous and frenzied’ assaults was jailed for three years today and banned from the Tube.”
The Independent, 11th February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A teenager who killed a man with one punch has had his sentence more than doubled to three-and-a-half years.”
BBC News, 10th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A jealous woman who killed her former lover by lacing his curry with an ancient poison has been convicted of murder.”
The Independent, 11th February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A paedophile, Owen Baxter, who volunteered as a church youth worker so he could sexually abuse young boys before boasting about it on the internet, has been jailed.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th February 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“On 9 February 2010 the Sentencing Guidelines Council published its definitive guideline ‘Corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences causing death’.”
Guideline on Corporate Manslaughter (PDF)
Sentencing Guidelines Council, 9th February 2010
Source: www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk
“A man who admitted trying to ‘sell’ his vulnerable sister into a sham marriage as part of a Chinese immigration scam has been jailed.”
BBC News, 9th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A 19-year-old man from the West Midlands has been jailed for four years and eight months for inciting a mother in the US to abuse her own child.”
BBC News, 8th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge today criticised a wealthy landowner for not revealing where he had hidden the body of his estranged wife after he murdered her.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Attorney General’s Reference (No 79 of 2009) [2010] WLR (D) 25
“In considering whether a sentence was unduly lenient the question for the Court of Appeal was whether the sentencing judge had, on the material presented to the Crown Court, erred in principle.”
WLR Daily, 5th February 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A secularist group has lodged an official complaint against Cherie Booth QC after she spared a man from prison because he was religious.”
BBC News, 4th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A 19-year-old man has been given an indeterminate jail sentence for the kidnap and rape of an 86-year-old woman in a Bradford care home.”
BBC News, 3rd February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A University of Bath registrar who offered forged degrees to young black women in exchange for spanking sessions to satisfy his sexual fetishes has avoided jail at court.”
The Independent, 2nd February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A teenage gang member who knifed a 16-year-old army cadet through the heart was sentenced to a minimum of 17 years behind bars today.”
The Independent, 2nd February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Thornton and another v Director of Public Prosecutions [2010] WLR (D) 17
“When assessing whether an indication by convicting justices as to the type of sentence which a defendant was likely to receive from a different sentencing judge gave rise to a legitimate expectation on the part of the defendant that the sentencing judge would in fact pass sentence in accordance with such an indication, the sentencing judge needed to consider whether the justices had complied with their duty pursuant to s 172 (1)(b) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to have regard to sentencing guidelines when carrying out a function relating to the sentencing of offenders.”
WLR Daily, 1st February 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.
“A 58-year-old teacher has been jailed for seven years for sexually abusing teenage boys at a Hampshire school over more than 30 years.”
BBC News, 1st February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for 20 years after being found guilty of trying to murder his ex-partner with a 4ft 6in (1.2m) metal fencing pin.”
BBC News, 29th January 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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