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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
Ex-burglars, muggers and gang members will be recruited to be 'wise friends' to newly freed prisoners, Chris Grayling will announce today. They will wait for inmates at the prison gate to 'mentor' them on how to go straight. Freed prisoners will also be helped to find a house and a place on a drug or alcohol rehabilitation course. In a speech in London, the Justice Secretary will pledge to make 'good use of the old lags in stopping the new ones'. The scheme is a key part of the Government's plan for a 'rehabilitation revolution' to slash re-offending rates. Ministry of Justice figures show 59 per cent of adult ex-offenders go on to commit further crimes within nine years of their release.
CrimeDaily Mail November 20 2012
 
Police are to open a murder inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings 40 years ago in Northern Ireland. It follows the Saville Inquiry’s report which said civil rights demonstrators shot dead by British soldiers at the height of the Troubles were innocent. Chief Constable Matt Baggott said: ‘It is a matter that I think we should be investigating.’ The Police Service of Northern Ireland has consulted prosecution lawyers as it prepares to open a major investigation. Thirteen people were shot dead when soldiers opened fire on civil rights marchers in Londonderry in 1972. Another man died five months later.
CrimeThe Sentinel – 6th July 2012
 
New measures designed to ensure police take incidents of low-level nuisance seriously have been criticised by campaigners. Plans by Theresa May, to replace, ASBO’s will not be enough to prevent anti-social behaviour, the Criminal Justice Alliance said. Under the measures, police will have to take action over nuisance behaviour if five people in different homes complain.
CrimeThe Sentinel – 23rd May 2012
 
The summer riots have led to an 8% increase in the juvenile prison population in England and Wales, half of whom were completely unknown to the criminal justice system or youth offending teams before the riots. The Youth Justice Board also believes that only 10-15% of young rioters had any sort of gang affiliation. These figures undermine claims from the government that the riots were caused by a ‘criminal underclass’.
CrimeYouthwork, November 2011
 
The violence and looting in high streets across England was “a wake-up call for the criminal justice system”, the head of Scotland Yard has said. Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin said the fact four-fifths of those arrested had previously had contact with the police and three-quarters had a criminal record raised serious questions for the police. His comments came as Justice Secretary Ken Clarke and London Mayor Boris Johnson said the riots were a result of a “broken penal system”.
CrimeThe Sentinel, August 17, 2011
 
In July, police in New South Wales in Australia were given more powers to remove burkas and other face coverings to identify crime suspects. Anyone in NSW who refuses to remove their face covering could now be fined or jailed for up to a year. The decision comes after a Muslim woman in Sydney, accused of lying about police trying to tear her burka off, avoided jail in June because her identity could not be proved.
CrimeEvangelicals Now August 2011
 
A British teenager suspected of masterminding a global computer hacking plot could face a fight against extradition to the United States. Ryan Cleary was arrested at his detached family home in Essex as part of a Scotland Yard and FBI probe into LulzSec, a group claiming responsibility for hacking attempts on the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, the U.S. Senate and the CIA. As the 19-year-old university student was questioned, lawyers said U.S. prosecutors may demand he faces justice across the Atlantic.
CrimeThe Sentinel June 22 2011
 
Scotland Yard is considering new allegations that private investigators committed breaches of privacy. The officers are undertaking a “formal assessment” of the claims to determine whether a criminal investigation would be appropriate. It emerged last night that the new investigation involves allegations relating to the interception of emails and hacking into computer files. One alleged victim was a former undercover agent who infiltrated the IRA, said the programme.
CrimeThe Sentinel June 10, 2011
 
A US style National Crime Agency will have the power to step in to directly task and coordinate police forces in a bid to tackle organised crime, the home secretary said.
Theresa May, said too many of the 6,000 organised crime gangs in the UK were escaping justice and a tough new approach was needed.”
CrimeThe Sentinel June 9, 2011
 
Thieves are targeting churches in Gloucester, Wiltshire and Bristol for their Cotswold stone roof tiles, says specialist church insurance company Ecclesiastical.
CrimeThe War Cry June 2011
 
The Church of Scotland General Trustees have warned of an alarming rise in lead and copper thefts from church roofs. The chairman of the General Trustees, the Rev Jim Jack, told May’s General assembly that they were hearing of thefts ‘on a weekly basis’. The amounts taken range from small pieces of flashing to several tonnes of lead.
CrimeLife And Work July 2011
 
Almost 1,000 released prisoners, including 30 killers and rapists, who should have been sent back to jail are at large, figures showed yesterday. More than a third of the 954 criminals, who have had their licences revoked either because they returned to crime or breached their conditions, have been on the run for more than five years. In all, 20 murderers and nine rapists who should be jailed were free at the end of last month.
CrimeThe Sentinel April 29, 2011
 
Police in Staffordshire have used Taser Stun Guns 165 times since the weapons were introduced six years ago. But Latest Home Office figures show the Tasers have actually been fired just 27 times between April 22, 2004, and March 31, 2010. A Staffordshire Police Spokesman said: “Staffordshire Police always endeavour to resolve violent situations and those involving armed people safely and without force. However, when that fails, Tasers give us an option to bring serious incidents to a swift and safe conclusion. The devices are a less-lethal alternative to conventional police firearms.”
Nationally in England and Wales Tasers have been used 8,599 times between April 2004 and March 2010. And in that period the weapons were fired 2,185 times.
CrimeThe Sentinel April 26, 2011
 
A violent thug serving a life sentence has won a £10,000 government payout after a delayed parole board hearing violated his human rights and robbed him of 10 months liberty. At £1,000 for every extra month he spent behind bars before being released on licence, the cash handed to Daniel Faulkner is a big increase on some previous awards in similar cases.
CrimeThe Sentinel - April 1 2011
 
Thousands of violent criminals will be spared prison under new sentencing rules handed down to the courts yesterday. Among them will be thugs who assault police officers and attackers guilty of grievous bodily harm - which at its most serious can cause permanent disability or disfigurement. Under the guidelines set by the Sentencing Council, which is led by senior judges, many violent offenders will get fines or community punishments instead of prison sentences. Documents published with the new rules on assault offences to come into effect in June, estimate that each year as many as 4,620 offenders who would currently go to jail will get fines or community sentences instead. The Prison Service, however, will save between £10million and £17million.
CrimeDaily Mail March 17th 2011
 
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