‘A man who sexually attacked two women in front of their young children has been given a life term for rape.’
The Independent, 23rd February 2016
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‘A man has been jailed for a “vicious” and “unprovoked” attack on another man outside a nightclub in Nottingham.’
BBC News, 21st October 2015
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‘A father who “snapped” and shook his three-week-old baby son so hard he broke his ribs and arms has been jailed for eight years.’
BBC News, 5th August 2015
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‘A man who called himself the “son of Lucifer” and attacked two strangers with an axe has been jailed.’
BBC News, 6th July 2015
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‘A “serial abuser” who admitted unlawfully wounding a woman he met online has been banned from joining dating websites.’
BBC News, 25th March 2015
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‘A neo-Nazi has been jailed for five years for attacking an Asian man on the day of Fusilier Lee Rigby’s funeral.’
BBC News, 29th January 2015
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‘A man found guilty of attempting to murder two trainee nurses who were stabbed, doused with petrol and almost set on fire has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 11th November 2014
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‘Barber avoids jail after slashing a man’s neck with a cut-throat razor as they fought outside his shop.’
Daily Telegraph, 24th October 2014
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‘An “obsessively jealous” former police officer who stabbed his pregnant girlfriend to death has been jailed for a minimum of 28 years.’
The Guardian, 24th October 2014
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‘An innocent family were beaten and stabbed in their own home in a scene from a “horror film” after a masked gang targeted the wrong house.’
BBC News, 30th July 2014
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‘Three men have been jailed for life for the murder of a “star pupil”. Aspiring doctor Ajmol Alom, 16, was stabbed in the thigh by a masked gang in an unprovoked attack near his home in Poplar, east London, on 12 August. Aminur Nadir Khan, 19, Mashudur Rahman, 22, and Ali Akbar Choudhury, 20, were jailed for a minimum of 23 years.’
BBC News, 7th May 2014
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‘Eleven members of the same family who kidnapped and tortured a couple they falsely accused of murdering a widow have been jailed.’
BBC News, 3rd April 2014
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‘A man branded a “danger to women” has been jailed for 23 years for a series of sex attacks in Hertfordshire.’
BBC News, 10th March 2014
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‘A mentally ill man who stabbed a police constable and two worshippers at a mosque was insane at the time of the offences, a jury has ruled.’
The Guardian, 4th February 2014
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“Three Sikh men and a woman have received lengthy jail sentences after being convicted of slashing an elderly Indian general in the neck.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2013
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“The senior British Airways cabin crew member smashed a glass in the pilot’s face when he told her their affair was over.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th November 2013
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“The trial of a man for the attempted murder of a woman in York has been abandoned after DNA evidence was lost.”
BBC News, 9th October 2013
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“A prisoner has had his life sentence doubled after he slashed child killer Mark Bridger from temple to chin, severing an artery, in an attempt to get him to reveal where April Jones’s body was hidden.”
The Independent, 2nd October 2013
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“A computer engineer from Birmingham has been jailed for nine years for an attack in which he stamped on the head of his partner’s four-year-old son.”
BBC News, 7th August 2013
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“A Sikh gang has been convicted of slashing a retired Indian general’s throat in a revenge attack.”
BBC News, 31st July 2013
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