‘A student who reported himself to police as a suspicious train passenger while carrying more than £250,000 in a suitcase has been sentenced.’
BBC News, 4th August 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A teenager who helped murder five-year-old Logan Mwangi before dumping his body in a river will not have his sentence increased.’
BBC News, 3rd August 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for more than two years after he was caught with more than 25,000 cannisters of laughing gas, police said.’
BBC News, 2nd August 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A money launderer who arranged to transport £104million in illegally obtained cash to Dubai has been jailed today (28 July).’
Crown Prosecution Service, 28th July 2022
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘Whole-life orders should be imposed only in ‘the few exceptionally serious cases’ where a minimum term is not appropriate, the Court of Appeal ruled today in the cases of five killers – including Wayne Couzens, the former Metropolitan Police officer who murdered Sarah Everard.’
Law Society's Gazette, 29th July 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Wayne Couzens is still set to die in prison after he lost his bid to reduce his sentence at the Court of Appeal.’
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2022
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Almost 100 years after a ban on cameras in criminal courts was enshrined in law, the first broadcast from an English crown court went out on Thursday and is likely to have left many viewers asking: “Why has it taken so long?”’
The Guardian, 28th July 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Old Bailey will be opened up to cameras on Thursday as sentencing remarks from a crown court case in England and Wales are broadcast for the first time.’
The Guardian, 27th July 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A teenage hacker has been jailed after threatening to post nudes stolen from women’s Snapchat accounts to make money, police have said.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th July 2022
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A man who stabbed his partner 29 times and left her locked in their house in a pool of blood has been jailed for life.’
The Guardian, 25th July 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man who murdered a young woman with a power tool inside a converted shipping container and buried her in a north London park has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 25th July 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Ministers have made little progress developing alternatives to custodial sentences for women, MPs have concluded, amid official predictions that the female prison population may rise by a third in the next three years.’
The Guardian, 26th July 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A Metropolitan Police officer caught spying on a woman in the changing room of a Primark store has avoided jail.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd July 2022
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A record number of reported rapes and sexual assaults in London will push the court system to “breaking point”, a victims commissioner has said.’
BBC News, 22nd July 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who was handed a suspended prison sentence after killing his terminally ill wife in a failed suicide pact has said the law on euthanasia must change.’
BBC News, 21st July 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘These three conjoined appeals concern the statutory regime governing the deportation of foreign criminals under section 117C of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (“the 2002 Act”). A “foreign criminal” for the purposes of these appeals is a person who is not a British citizen, is convicted in the UK of an offence, and who is sentenced to a period of imprisonment of at least 12 months. The 2002 Act divides foreign criminals who have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment into two categories. Those sentenced to at least 12 months, but less than four years (“medium offenders”), can avoid deportation if they can establish that its effect on a qualifying child or partner would be “unduly harsh” (“the unduly harsh test”). This is known as Exception 2. Exception 1, which relates to length of lawful residence and integration, is not in issue in this appeal. Those sentenced to at least four years (“serious offenders”) can avoid deportation if they establish that there are “very compelling circumstances, over and above those described in Exceptions 1 and 2” (“the very compelling circumstances test”). Whether deportation would produce unduly harsh effects for a qualifying partner/child is relevant there too.’
UKSC Blog, 20th July 2022
Source: ukscblog.com
‘An off-duty paramedic who drank 10 pints before crashing into and killing a cyclist has been jailed.’
BBC News, 20th July 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An 89-year-old retired pig farmer who tried to blame the serial killer Fred West for the disappearance of his wife in 1982 has been jailed for a minimum of 18 years after being found guilty of murdering her and dumping her body in a septic tank.’
The Guardian, 20th July 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A couple who enjoyed holidays abroad with money from a relative who faked being bedridden to scam a local authority out of more than £624,000 have been jailed.’
The Guardian, 19th July 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man who hit a young woman over the head 20 times with a power tool is facing life imprisonment after being convicted of her murder.’
The Guardian, 19th July 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
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