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sbo-style Violent Offender Orders (VOOs) that can restrict criminals' movements after they are released from prison are coming into force. Civil VOOs are intended to help cut re-offending by banning criminals from certain places or from contacting particular people for up to five years. But the Howard League for Penal Reform said it feared they could be overused and counterproductive. Ministers have also announced £3.2m of funding for victims of sexual assault. The measures are part of an updated strategy by the government to tackle violent crime and were contained in the 2008 Criminal Justice and Immigration Act. Under the terms of VOOs, serious offenders who have …

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From the hallowed BBC: Solicitors boycott virtual courts Ministers say the scheme will save money and time A government scheme to allow defendants to be dealt with via "virtual courts" is being boycotted by solicitors who say it is "justice on the cheap". The initiative lets prisoners face magistrates via video link from a police station instead of in court. But solicitors in Kent are refusing to take part in the pilot, claiming it is unfair on both defendants and lawyers. Minister Bridget Prentice said it allowed swifter just…

Although on a slightly happier note, conviction rates for rape in Scotland have risen slightly from 2.9% to 3.7%, but it's still the lowest in all of Europe according to The Scotsman.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with wounding after a woman was attacked with bleach in a Leeds restaurant. The 46-year-old had bleach thrown in her face after earlier asking a group of youths to be quiet during a showing of the new Harry Potter film. The boy was arrested following the incident in the city's Kirkstall Road. He is due to appear before Leeds Magistrates' Court later charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Another youth was arrested on Saturday, but has been released on police bail, pending further inquiries in relation to the incident on 26 July. The woman was attacked at a Frankie and Benny's restaurant in front of her husb…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/aug/03/c...online-ancestry Poisoners, would-be assassins of Queen Victoria and model for Dickens's Fagin among those included in new archive. Pity is, we cannot see the more recent one`s, like Ian Huntly, that is one i would love to read through.

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http://www.whtimes.co.uk/content/whtimes/n...3A13%3A02%3A790 Witnessed the accident first hand, was horrific, slung from the ride and bounced off a metal fence and came to land after smacking into the porta-loos, The harists he was wering came loose. Had a brief with the Police officers on the nightshift who were gaurding it. Poor kid, he has so bruised up when i saw him it was hard to tell weather he was male or female. Health and saftey breach?

A mother-of-two has been seriously burned after being attacked with bleach in front of her family. Skip related content Related photos / videos Woman burned with bleach after row The 46-year-old woman was watching the latest Harry Potter film with her husband and two children at a cinema when she asked a group of five or six teenagers, including at least one girl, to stop making a noise. After the film, two of the group followed the family into a nearby restaurant and threw bleach over the woman's head and back, leaving her needing hospital treatment for burns to her skin and possible permanent damage to her eyes. West Yorkshire Police described the attack as "comple…

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish...86908-21567912/ SCOTLAND's largest police force face a "dire" cash crisis which could see a budget black hole of up to £35million next year. Are all Police forces this cash strapped?

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Inmates are so comfortable in jail that they do not want to escape, a prison officer union leader says. Glyn Travis of the Prison Officers Association says inmates are happy to stay inside because they can get hold of drugs, mobile phones and even sex. He said a dealer regularly broke into a Yorkshire prison by using a ladder to enter cell windows - but no inmate used the ladder as a means of escape. The Prison Service said the prisoners were never in a position to escape. Mr Travis said the authorities…

A 19-year-old man who was stabbed has died after he was found in a car stopped by police for jumping a red traffic light in south London. Police found him at 0512 BST in one of three cars which failed to stop at a red light on Baylis Road, Southwark. Police believe he was stabbed outside a nightclub in Goding Street, Kennington. Police also found another man, also 19, with stab injuries on the same street. The second victim was found at about the same time as the teenager who died. The second man, who is being treated in hospital for "non life-threatening injuries", remains in a "serious" condition. BBC