“A leading antiterrorist police officer has been jailed for ten months after admitting using his Scotland Yard credit card to take his wife and mistress on luxury holidays.”
The Times, 23rd September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“One of Scotland Yard’s most experienced anti-terrorist officers was jailed for 10 months today after admitting credit card fraud involving tens of thousands of pounds.”
The Guardian, 22nd September 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Royal Marine commando has been jailed for 18 months for beating up a bank manager at a masked ball after she called him ‘baldy’.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“More children aged between 10 and 14 are being locked up in England and Wales – increasingly for more minor offences – than in any western European country, the charity Barnardo’s warns today.”
The Guardian, 22nd September 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A teenage gamekeeper who clubbed to death badgers and shot buzzards then recorded the illegal killings in a coded diary has been spared jail.”
The Guardian, 20th September 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s youngest convicted terrorist was sentenced to two years in jail today after a blueprint for atrocities was found hidden in the schoolboy’s bedroom.”
The Times, 9th September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A stalker was given a suspended jail sentence for a campaign of harassment against a female bus driver he became ‘obsessed’ with.”
BBC News, 15th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A lorry driver killed a couple in a car after losing control of his vehicle.”
BBC News, 15th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for life after he admitted stabbing his wife to death at their family home in Dorset.”
BBC News, 15th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teenager has been sentenced to five years youth detention for stabbing a student to death ‘instinctively’. ”
BBC News, 12th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who claimed his girlfriend fatally stabbed herself in the back with a kitchen knife has been jailed for life.”
BBC News, 11th September, 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman who produced human fingers in court in a bid to explain her involvement in a £925,000 tax credit fraud has been jailed for five years.”
BBC News, 11th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who killed his 30-year-old wife and dumped her body in a Staffordshire lay-by has been jailed for seven years.”
BBC News, 11th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A motorist who killed a pensioner while driving friends to a band rehearsal has been fined just £50.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A paraplegic has been jailed for five years after admitting sexual abuse involving children.”
BBC News, 9th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A perverted reflexologist was jailed for eight years today for sexually assaulting four women during treatment sessions.”
The Independent, 11th September 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two men have been jailed for their roles in a violent clash between Derby County and Nottingham Forest fans.”
BBC News, 10th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A British soldier who shot dead a colleague while ‘playing’ with a rifle in Iraq in 2007 has been sentenced to two years in an Army detention centre.”
BBC News, 10th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former Black Watch soldier who stole £15,000 of his fiancée’s lottery winnings while she was dying of cancer has been sentenced to 225 hours’ community service.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court of Appeal
“When the court was sentencing a person for the possession of a false passport, the use to which the passport had been put was of potential significance.”
The Times, 10th September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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