“A BBC presenter who admitted wasting police time after claiming on air that he smothered his dying lover has been given a suspended prison sentence.”
BBC News, 14th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“George Michael was today sentenced to eight weeks in prison for a drug-driving offence.”
The Guardian, 14th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A school IT technician from North Yorkshire has been jailed for two years and eight months after pleading guilty to several child pornography charges.”
BBC News, 14th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A secondary school teacher was jailed for four years today after being found guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old girl.”
The Independent, 13th September 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A former black cab driver has been jailed for six years for killing his 100-year-old mother.”
BBC News, 13th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Kent couple have been jailed for two years for abusing two young boys.”
BBC News, 13th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (Webb) v Secretary of State for Justice [2010] WLR (D) 241
“S 116 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 conferred a unique statutory power to sentence a defendant for a new offence committed while on release on licence for an earlier offence. It was a fresh sentence not served in respect of the original offence so that even if that initial offence was a violent or sexual offence specified in Sch 15 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 but the new offence was not, the s 116 sentence for a long-term prisoner came within s 33(1A) rather than s 33(1B) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991. The defendant was therefore entitled to be released on licence after serving half of his sentence rather than two-thirds, the applicable period under s 33(1B).”
WLR Daily, 9th September 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.
“Three men have been jailed for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman who only learned of the attack when she saw footage of it on a mobile phone.”
BBC News, 10th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Female criminals are more likely to have mental health or educational difficulties and to have parenting responsibilities, while a lower proportion will have committed violent crimes than men, according to new guidelines. Judges ought to ‘bear these matters in mind’ when passing sentence, according to the Equal Treatment Bench Book, published by the Judicial Studies Board (JSB).”
Daily Telegraph, 11th September 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man who murdered his father and buried his remains in concrete in a garden has been jailed for life and ordered to serve at least 16 years.”
BBC News, 10th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for three-and-a-half years after admitting making, distributing and possessing indecent photographs of children.”
BBC News, 8th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A fraudster was jailed today for trying to claim compensation from a number of local councils for injuries he had never suffered.”
The Independent, 8th September 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A 22-year-old who boasted that he possessed ‘a killer punch’ has been jailed for killing a man with just one blow outside a Greater Manchester pub.”
BBC News, 7th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has joined calls for a system of first and second degree murder charges that would end mandatory life sentences for the crime.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th September 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The girl thought to be Britain’s youngest female double murderer has been jailed for a minimum of 14 years. Lorraine Thorpe, now 16, of Clapgate Lane, Ipswich, was found guilty in August of murdering her father Desmond Thorpe and a woman called Rosalyn Hunt.”
BBC News, 7th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The son of dance music star Goldie was given a minimum 21-year jail sentence today for his part in gang rivalry that turned lethally violent.”
The Guardian, 7th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A police sergeant who injured a woman when he assaulted her in a cell has been jailed for six months.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th September 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Church of England vicar was today among 3 men jailed for staging hundreds of sham marriages in East Sussex. Reverend Alex Brown was found guilty of conspiring to facilitate breaches in immigration law in July alongside 2 other men, Ukrainian national Vladymyr Buchak and lawyer Michael Adelasoye, following an 8 week trial.”
UK Border Agency, 6th September 2010
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Five men have been jailed following a botched postal voting scam intended to secure a seat for a Conservative Party candidate at the 2005 general election.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th September 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Church of England vicar has been jailed for four years for his part in Britain’s biggest sham marriage fraud to help hundreds of illegal immigrants stay in Britain.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th September 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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