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“Several people were sentenced to long prison terms over the 2006 coup attempt.”
“The payments account for about 70% of all the expenditure in the publication, but they do not take account of a range of other expenditure on health, education and other services itemised such as the pandemic flu, grants to police authorit…”
“Macamelo Antonio, 28, was sentenced for destroying state property after he used a hammer and crowbar to enter the prison compound this week.”
“Antonio, who had been given 10 years for the murder of his stepfather in 2004, was released on parole for good behaviour last year.”
“Antonio had also reportedly feared that his stepfather's family would try to kill him. Mr Mate said Antonio had first tried to return to the prison through the main door but was turned back by guards.”
“This is very unusual. Prisoners usually try to sneak out of the cells and not the opposite, the prison boss said.”
“More than 25 years after the Bhopal gas leak killed thousands of people, the court finally convicted seven former managers at the plant.”
“They received minor fines and brief prison sentences.”
“were jailed for six years”
“Cheryl Carter, 34, of Brixton, south London, successfully sued in the High Court for negligence over treatment she received at Cookham Wood jail in 2005.”
“Now three judges sitting at the Appeal Court have said the finding of negligence was not sustainable in law.”
“Police found his body in the flat on 7 June.”
“The court heard that he was found nine hours later by police when he was arrested for attempted murder.”
“Jailing him for five years, Judge Nicholas Cooke QC said: "This is a terrible tragedy for all concerned."”
“seized 10 tonnes of skunk with an estimated street value of £30m.”
“Eight men and a woman were arrested during the investigation.”
“Three members of the gang were convicted of supplying Class B drugs at Bristol Crown Court on Friday.”
“When police struck last year they seized 10 tonnes of skunk with an estimated street value of £30m.”
“Eight men and a woman were arrested during the investigation, which involved detectives from Wiltshire and their Dutch counterparts.”
“Gang leader David Barnes, 41, from Hungerford, Berkshire, was the mastermind behind the operation which supplied dealers throughout England and the Irish Republic.”
“Five of the gang pleaded guilty before the trial”
“The seizure of millions of pounds of cannabis, tens of thousands of pounds of cash and the smashing of an international drugs ring is seen as a major victory for Wiltshire detectives and their Dutch colleagues.”
“After buying boxes of cut flowers at the giant international flower market at Naaldwijk near The Haig, the gang would then take them to their own warehouses before placing the bags of cannabis beneath the flowers.”
“But in March 2009, acting on intelligence, Wiltshire detectives stopped Michael Woodage's white van on the M4 after he had left Poplar farm.”
“seized Woodage's van in March last year”
“people as young as 12 have been seen diving.”
“He was jailed for nine years and given three years probation.”
“He was jailed for nine years and given three years probation. His most serious crime was the rape of a boy.”
“He was sentencing John Michael McDermott, 60, of Moorlough Road, Donagh, for 35 charges of sexually abusing children over 30 years.”
“Two of his brothers - mentally unfit to stand trial - were given lifetime sexual offences prevention orders. James, 61, and Owen Roe McDermott, 52, were banned from schools and playgrounds in the village and from having access to anyone ag…”
“Officers arrested Gallett in Digbeth following England's 1-1 draw with the USA on Saturday.”
“Officers on Broad Street also plan to issue yellow card warnings to drinkers who look like causing trouble, with a red card meaning an arrest and banning order.”
“The assembly government said that since 2005, it had taken many steps to help tackle abuse including funding various projects, establishing a 24/7 helpline, creating sexual assault referral centres and funding a safe house for women fleein…”
“He admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing, and also pleaded guilty to a charge of wounding Mrs McGrath with intent.”
“Barnard was originally been charged with murder and attempted murder, but the prosecution accepted the pleas as it was clear the defendant had been suffering from 'a severe mental illness'.”
“Keith Porter, 22, was jailed for nine years and four months in December for the "brutal" attack on Jaroslaw Janeczek with a wooden mop handle.”
“Co-accused George Stewart admitted assault to severe injury in the first attack and was jailed for three years and three months.”
“Lord Woolman told Stewart it was a minor assault which would not normally have come to the High Court and fined him £250.”
“Keith Porter, 22, was jailed for nine years and four months in December for the 'brutal' attack on Jaroslaw Janeczek with a wooden mop handle.”
“Advocate depute Andrew Bowen told Lord Woolman of Porter's history of previous convictions, which included a racially-motivated assault in 2005.”
“Teresa Matos, 37, from Gateshead, admitted importing the drugs worth £2m.”
“Matos was jailed for seven-and-a-half years at Portsmouth Crown Court.”
“Her boyfriend Raul Beia, 39, from Clapham, south-west London, who was also granted asylum to live in the UK, was jailed for 13 years after being found guilty of illegally importing drugs.”
“Abdul Banda, 34, of Ashbourne Road, Ealing, West London, who pleaded guilty to the charge, was jailed for 10-and-a-half years.”
“Twenty-year-old Langley, of Clem Attlee Estate, Fulham, west London, who had denied involvement, was sentenced to 11 years.”
“The court was told Matos picked up the 4.94kg haul of 100% pure cocaine while HMS Manchester had docked at the port of Cartagena in Colombia, South America, in July last year.”
“Matos was jailed for seven-and-a-half years at Portsmouth Crown Court. Three men from London were also jailed.”
“A 53-year-old man has been arrested in Austria after more then a million pornographic pictures of children were found in his flat, police say.”
“About one million images depicted naked or partially clothed children, Ewald Ebner of Austria's Federal Criminal Investigations Bureau said.”
“In addition, more than 30,000 pictures showed sexual acts with children, while 425 video files included babies and toddlers being subjected to sexual and violent abuse, police said.”
“The man has not been named, but was reportedly arrested in April after a tip-off from investigators in Germany who saw his computer had accessed a child pornography network.”
“The allegations of sexual abuse against the two children were reportedly brought after police found photos of the two girls, aged five and six, among his collection.”
“This is the largest number of pictures seized in Austria in the course of a single operation,”
“Two charges of common assault and making a threat to kill should remain on file.”
“Brian Mackay, from Edinburgh, had agreed to process the cash for a Nigerian woman he met in an internet chatroom between May and July 2008. [...] He was ordered to complete 260 hours of unpaid work for his part in the con.”
“was jailed for 18 months.”
“Earlier this week, seven under-aged initiates were rescued from an illegal initiation school run by a 55-year-old unregistered traditional surgeon who had been arrested several times for the offence.”
“who had been arrested several times for the offence.”
“Over the next six weeks researchers from the force will visit communities across Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Powys.”
“They will be asked what they think of the service and what the priorities should be over the coming year.”
“He was sentenced to a 12-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months.”
“Prosecutors said he killed the swan, which is protected by law, in the early hours of 10 May on an embankment near The Swan Hotel.”
“Mr Miah has been very fortunate to escape going straight to jail. Four people have gone to prison for killing swans in the past 10 years.”
“Three companies have been convicted of health and safety breaches in relation to the Buncefield oil depot explosion in Hertfordshire in December 2005.”
“This was the biggest and most complex criminal inquiry we have worked on together - the product of many hundreds of hours of painstaking forensic investigation.”
“Sentencing of the companies by trial judge Mr Justice Calvert-Smith will take place back at St Albans Crown Court next month.”
“Ten prison service staff who faced disciplinary charges following the suicide of a prisoner at Maghaberry Jail have been reinstated after appeals.”
“Colin Bell, who was serving a life sentence for murder, hanged himself at the jail in July 2008.”
“Two senior prison officers recommended for demotion have also been returned to their previous positions, with a formal warning.”
“The cases of three other prison officers have yet to be resolved.”
“The Northern Ireland Prison Service confirmed that an independent appeal panel had concluded its deliberations in 10 out of the 13 cases.”
“On Thursday, the director general of the Northern Ireland Prison Service, Robin Masefield, said he intended to step down from his post before the end of this year.”
“Officers have arrested 14 men in the city on suspicion of breaching orders since the end of May.”
“These 14 arrests follow on from work we did to help convict eight Portsmouth men following trouble at the Carling Cup fixture against Carlisle in October last year.”
“Of the 14 men arrested since May, four pleaded guilty before Portsmouth magistrates and were fined, given curfews or supervision orders.”
“Three were charged and released on police bail to appear in court on 22 June.”
“He was jailed for three and a half years at the High Court in Edinburgh.”
“Mark Wallace, 26, from Elmwood Drive in Bangor, told friends he was thinking of stabbing Katie Hughes weeks in advance of her death in April 2009.”
“Wallace, a former drug addict, was once forced to leave NI by paramilitaries. On the night of the murder Wallace went into the kitchen of the house in Park Avenue in Bangor and returned to a sofa to sit beside Ms Hughes, who has a four yea…”
“Mr Justice Hart said that on his own admission Wallace had attacked a man at a party a few days before the murder. He said he had hit him over the head with a bottle.”
“He said: "It was done for health and safety reasons [given] the dirt and rubbish these geese leave. There's been outrage because it was the day after the shootings in Cumbria and it unnerves people, which we will admit was wrong. But Canad…”
“Terry Follows, cabinet member for environment, waste management and neighbourhood services, said Stoke-on-Trent City Council would look into how it deals with geese.”
“"As the suspect was acting suspiciously police decided to search him and the 30 tickets were discovered," said police spokeswoman Sally de Beer.”
“Greater Manchester Police chiefs have put a freeze on recruiting new officers as part of efforts to save £6.9m.”
“It follows a reduction in the annual police grant announced as part of the coalition's £6.2bn of spending cuts.”
“We've got the lowest crime in Manchester for ten years, the lowest gun crime for eight years.”
“The move, decided by the Greater Manchester Police Authority (GMPA), means retiring officers will not be replaced.”
“Lawrence, who was jailed in 2005 with a minimum tariff of 21 years, has been transferred to another prison.”
“Lawrence is serving life for murder and for plotting two further killings.”
“The plot was uncovered when prison guards spotted the phrase 'more heat, less light' in one of his letters.”
“Parkhurst lost its maximum security status after three inmates escaped in 1995.”
“David Baker, 24, was cycling on Central Bridge when he was attacked by a gang on 8 June at 2340 BST.”
“Police have taken the "unusual" step of naming two people they want to question over the attack Paul Johnson, 21, and Timothy Horstead, 20, of Thornhill.”
“An 18-year-old woman arrested last week has since been released on bail.”
“He had been charged with attempting to smuggle arms and explosives from Europe in an alleged Real IRA arms operation.”
“Mr Kearns had denied two charges of plotting to possess guns and explosives between May 2005 and June 2006.”
“He faces a total of six charges including conspiring to get arms and explosives, IRA membership and three charges of using money for the purposes of terrorism.”
“She could be sentenced to more than 20 years in prison if convicted.”
“Police said his injuries were not life-threatening.”
“Two men have been arrested and are being questioned.”
