‘Under plans confirmed by ministers today (17 September 2019), the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme will be extended to 14 new offences.’
Ministry of Justice, 17th September 2019
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
‘When an obsessed fan’s adoration of beauty queen Samantha Bumford became physical, she alerted police and he was given a restraining order and sent to prison.’
BBC News, 30th August 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Victims of stalking, domestic violence and child abuse are to get new legal rights to challenge unduly lenient sentences in a further crackdown on “soft” justice.’
Daily Telegraph, 13th August 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Police officers have been told not to hand out fixed penalty notices in stalking and harassment cases after the teenager Shana Grice was fined for wasting police time before she was murdered.’
The Guardian, 8th August 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘At least 60 sexual offence allegations investigated by military service police in two years were not reported in official figures, the BBC has found. Figures for 2017 and 2018 did not include alleged offences such as sexual communications with children and stalking involving fear of violence.’
BBC news, 16th July 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A father has admitted stalking his daughter after trying to force her into a marriage and keep her from university.’
BBC News, 10th June 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘It was the chilling 1987 blockbuster about a spurned lover who wreaks revenge on a married man by launching a terrifying stalking campaign against him and his family. But when the wife of a hedge fund manager discovered her husband was having an affair – and his jilted mistress began viciously harassing her online – she said it felt like she had walked onto the set of Fatal Attraction.’
Daily Telegraph, 7th May 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Police repeatedly failed a stalking victim who went on to kill herself, crushed by the weight of harassment she was suffering, a report has found.’
The Guardian, 29th April 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Police officers are to face disciplinary charges over the case of a woman murdered after being stalked by her former partner, whose repeated pleas for help instead saw her fined for wasting police time.’
The Guardian, 9th April 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Revenge porn threats should be made illegal after the murder of Alice Ruggles, a domestic homicide review has recommended.’
Daily Telegraph, 19th March 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A new civil order that will help protect victims of stalking has received Royal Assent today, and is included as part of the government’s wider commitments to tackle violence against women and girls.’
Home Office, 15th March 2019
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘This summary does not cover every eventuality but intends to outline some of the possible criminal offences that may be committed. It should not be treated as legal advice and is not meant to be an exhaustive account of this area of law.
The police are responsible for investigating an allegation that a crime has been committed. Following investigation, the decision whether to charge a person with a criminal offence lies either with the police or the CPS.
Where a series of existing offences – including harassment and public order offences – are committed, and such an offence was motivated by hostility to race or religion, or was accompanied by hostility to race or religion proximate to the commission of the offence, a separate racially or religious aggravated offence is committed attracting a greater penalty. For further details, see the CPS-published guidance on this website. For those offences not covered but where hostility or hostile motivation towards race or religion is present, or hostility or hostile motivation towards disability, sexual orientation or transgender is present, this must be treated as an aggravating factor at sentence and stated as such in open court.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 11th January 2018
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘A woman who orchestrated an online harassment campaign against her ex-boyfriend, before lying about being pregnant and even staging a fake kidnapping, has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.’
The Independent, 12th December 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A detective is suing his own police force claiming that it ignored allegations that he was a victim of domestic abuse because he is a man.’
Daily Telegraph, 5th December 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A “vicious, manipulative” stalker who turned her ex’s life into a “living nightmare” after he broke a so-called love contract has been jailed for four years.’
BBC News, 22nd November 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Domestic abusers and stalkers should be forced to sign a national register like sex offenders, a cross-party parliamentary report has said.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd October 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A “deeply manipulative” stalker boasted online about concocting a “super duper defence” before claiming in court that she had been kidnapped and raped by an MI5 agent.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th October 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A stalking victim was murdered by her ex-boyfriend after police left it to the soldier’s Army bosses to warn him about his behaviour, a report has found.’
Daily Telegraph, 12th September 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Police officers failed to properly investigate complaints a young woman made against her former boyfriend in the days before he brutally murdered her, the police watchdog has found.’
BBC News, 12th September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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