“A jilted boyfriend was jailed for lifetoday today for gunning down his girlfriend’s parents, after blaming them for breaking up their relationship.”
The Guardian, 20th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“O’Connor and Rooney: serial burglars’ sentences doubled.”
Attorney General’s Office, 16th July 2009
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“Eight men have been sentenced for a drugs conspiracy that saw millions of pounds of heroin imported into the UK.”
BBC News, 16th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who ran over his own friend and left him dying in the road was jailed for more than five years today.”
The Independent, 16th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“If revenge is a dish best served cold, the portion served up by Martin Frostick was positively icy. Eleven years after he was gazumped on a house purchase, he launched a smear campaign to ruin the estate agents he blamed for the collapse of the deal.”
The Guardian, 16th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Statement: Kinsella killers’ sentences not to be referred as unduly lenient.”
Attorney General’s Office, 15th July 2009
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“A blackmailer who threatened to expose her Muslim friend as a terrorist sympathiser has been jailed.”
BBC News, 15th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who posed as a businessman to trick two couples into renting out their homes where he and his wife squatted has been jailed for 15 months.”
BBC News, 14th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A golfer who beat a fellow player around the head with an eight iron after an outbreak of ‘golf rage’ was today jailed for nine months.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A gunman who shot a rival gang member in a north London barber shop as ‘payback’ for two other deaths has been jailed for life for murder.”
BBC News, 13th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A school caretaker called Stephen Singer was jailed for life on Monday for killing his lover Dina Sharpe after lacing her omelette with sleeping pills.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court of Appeal
“Where a judge did not accept the basis of a defendant’s plea of guilty, he was obliged to inform the defendant of that fact before proceeding to sentence.”
The Times, 13th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A newlywed couple who killed a man the morning after their wedding have been jailed for manslaughter.”
BBC News, 10th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A jealous husband who tried to ‘execute’ a love rival in a barbershop as he cut a child’s hair has been jailed indefinitely.”
BBC News, 10th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A conman who tricked religious pilgrims out of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been jailed for six years.”
BBC News, 10th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two men were jailed today for inciting racial hatred online. Simon Sheppard, 52, was sentenced to four years and 10 months while Stephen Whittle, 42, was given a term of two years and four months after being convicted of a number of race-hate crimes.”
The Independent, 10th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“England striker Jermain Defoe was today banned from driving after being convicted of speeding, but the sentence was immediately suspended as his lawyers appealed the judgement.”
The Times, 10th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An administrator who admitted taking thousands of pounds intended for a dance group’s trip to America has been jailed for 18 months.”
BBC News, 11th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teacher has admitted having more than 130 indecent images of children on his computer.”
BBC News, 10th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Six members of a notorious teenage knife gang were told they were arrogant cowards as they were jailed for life today for murdering an innocent schoolboy yards from his home.”
The Times, 9th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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