“Three former oil industry workers who became the first British business executives to be jailed for price-fixing had their sentences reduced today.”
The Times, 14th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
R v Moulden [2008] EWCA Crim 2561; [2008] WLR (D) 352
“In s 6(2)(a) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the words ‘proceedings before the Crown Court’ meant proceedings under a single indictment. The expression did not cover everything, in whatever form, before the court on the date sentence was to be imposed.”
WLR Daily, 12th November 2008
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 former RAF serviceman who sexually abused and raped a Lincolnshire girl has been sent to jail for 11 years.”
BBC News, 10th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A retired police officer has been jailed for four years after being convicted of a ‘systematic’ campaign of sex abuse against two young girls.”
BBC News, 10th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A British Airways stewardess who stole thousands of pounds of charity donations made by passengers has been described as ‘spiteful’ and ‘despicable’ by a judge.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man whose mother shopped him to police after he admitted killing a man has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to manslaughter.”
BBC News, 7th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A police officer who admitted having sex with one woman while on duty and propositioning another after she had been arrested was today jailed for four months.”
The Independent, 7th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A teenager who sexually assaulted women in the street after spending hours playing the violent video game Grand Theft Auto has been jailed indefinitely.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A teenager is to serve at least seven years for attempted murder after stabbing a boy in the head.”
BBC News, 6th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for a murder he carried out 10 years ago after confessing to his girlfriend in a letter.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A judge was overcome with emotion in court as he passed sentence on a lorry driver who killed a young father with a dangerous U-turn.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Criminals should be ‘frightened’ of going to court, the most senior judge in England and Wales has said, signalling a new tougher attitude towards sentencing.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man who spied on a nine-year-old girl in a supermarket toilet has been given a suspended prison sentence.”
BBC News, 4th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Norfolk farmer has been jailed for five months for animal cruelty.”
BBC News, 4th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for raping a woman at a railway station in Kent 13 years ago.”
BBC News, 4th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A workman who rifled through his female customers’ drawers and stole their underwear was given a suspended jail sentence today.”
The Independent, 4th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A gang of ‘callous’ sex traffickers and brothel bosses, who subjected a terrified teenager and a young mother to a nightmare of ‘sex slavery’, were jailed for up to 14 years each today.”
The Independent, 4th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A judge has said he would not have recommended two drug-smugglers be freed from jail if he had known details they gave of hidden guns had been bogus.”
BBC News, 3rd November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A mother from Surrey has been jailed for life for suffocating her three-year-old son.”
BBC News, 3rd November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Lord Chief Justice has ordered immediate changes to the system of reviewing jail terms after learning that killers could be having their tariffs wrongly reduced because vital information is not seen by judges.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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