Regina v Lewis (Leroy): [2013] EWCA Crim 2596; [2014] WLR (D) 38
‘Once an indictment had been properly preferred and signed it remained the indictment in the case, so that the Crown Court had jurisdiction to try a case where no evidence had been offered on the single indictable offence and only summary offences were left to be tried.’
WLR Daily, 5th December 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Three men caught taking discarded food from bins outside an Iceland store will not now be prosecuted after an explosion of criticism over the decision to bring charges against them, including from the company’s chief executive.’
The Guardian, 29th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A gardener has been cleared of causing grievous bodily harm to thieves he caught red-handed raiding his business.’
BBC News, 23rd January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A divorced couple have been jailed after they stole almost £500,000 from their severely brain damaged daughter’s £2.6 million compensation fund, to finance their “greed and indulgence”.’
The Independent, 17th January 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A mother-of-four who stole nearly £8,000 from a Christmas savings club in south Wales has been jailed for 18 months.’
BBC News, 13th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A doctor with “marital difficulties” forged prescriptions for Viagra because he was too embarrassed to see his GP. Dr Mansoor Kassim, 37, who worked at Ystrad Fawr Hospital near Caerphilly, faked £340.67 worth of scripts, Newport magistrates heard. He was given a suspended jail sentence after admitting four charges of making a false prescription, two of theft by an employee and one of fraud.’
BBC News, 10th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The victims of a corrupt solicitor and former Coroner who stole from their loved ones’ estates have been left asking how he managed to get away with it for so long.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th December 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for nearly four years for his part in a phishing scam that targeted UK students to steal in excess of £1.5m.’
The Guardian, 14th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘More than 500 of the world’s leading authors, including five Nobel prize winners, have condemned the scale of state surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and warned that spy agencies are undermining democracy and must be curbed by a new international charter.’
The Guardian, 10th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A bag-snatcher who fatally injured a Birmingham grandmother during a mugging has been jailed for 11 years.’
BBC News, 2nd December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former Gloucestershire coroner has been jailed for eight years for stealing £2m from clients, some of whom had died, at his solicitors practice.”
BBC News, 28th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman has been jailed for stealing flowers from a Liverpool crematorium to then sell on for profit.”
BBC News, 30th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Britain’s most senior prosecutor has launched a robust defence of journalists who break the law pursuing investigations that have a genuine public interest. Legal guidelines had been drafted, he said, to protect reporters.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman who admitted stealing 905 designer handbags over the course of three years has been jailed for 18 months.”
The Independent, 18th October 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Crime against households and adults in England and Wales fell 7% to a record low in the year to June, official figures have revealed.”
The Guardian, 17th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Motorists who repeatedly steal petrol by filling up and then claiming to have forgotten their wallets will no longer be able to escape criminal prosecution, after new guidance was issued to police forces.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A new law targeting trade in stolen metal has come into force.”
BBC News, 1st October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A 25-year-old former international hockey player has been found guilty of stealing up to £450 of groceries from Sainsbury’s by regularly self-scanning all the items in his basket as loose onions.”
The Independent, 1st October 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A burglar who stole a kayak and tried to paddle across the Channel to start a new life in France has been jailed.”
BBC News, 30th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A housewife is facing jail after she stole more than 900 designer handbags worth up to £500,000 in a crime spree lasting three years.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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