Tim Worstall

The guidelines say: "Many offenders convicted of acquisitive crimes are motivated by an addiction, often to drugs or gambling. This does not mitigate the seriousness of the offence but an offender’s dependency may properly influence the type of sentence."
They suggest that rather than a prison term, […]

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If you do, then Interpol would like to hear from you.

He is a white man with grey, thinning hair who appears to be in his late 40s or early 50s.
He was shown sexually abusing young boys from south-east Asia.
Interpol said that despite two years of investigations it has so far been […]

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This is highly amusing:

Mr Yeomans, who has an otherwise impeccable record in 38 years as a teacher, was prosecuted after he went fishing at his favourite spot on the River Dove in Derbyshire last summer.
Asked by a water bailiff to produce his rod licence, he discovered to his […]

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Oh dear Gail:

The wife of Tommy Sheridan has been charged with lying under oath during the socialist politician’s high-profile libel trial against the News of the World.
Gail Sheridan, 44, whose testimony formed a central part of her husband’s case during a 23-day trial in 2006, was charged with perjury after six hours’ questioning by detectives. […]

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I wonder if this is the reason:

Officials could give no clear explanation for the rise in rapists spared jail, but one theory is that an increase in the number of cases brought to court has led to more convictions for non-violent rapes, particularly of men having sex with girls under the age of 16.

Someone would […]

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From us, that is:

Sinn Féin claimed that McShane, who is thought to be in the protective custody of a branch of the intelligence services, had nothing to fear if he came home.
"He is under no threat from republicans. If he wishes to return, it is up to him to make peace with his community and […]

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To reduce gun crime.

The continuing drop in recorded crime was marred by a 4 per cent increase in gun crime,

So that works, eh?

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A corrupt civil servant behind one of the biggest frauds in Whitehall history has managed to avoid paying anything towards a £1.5m confiscation order because the Crown Prosecution Service delayed enforcing it for 11 years, the Guardian has learned.
Gordon Foxley, who was head of defence procurement at the Ministry of Defence from 1981 to 1984, […]

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One of the more pernicious ideas of modern times is that all rape is rape, that all and any sex (although rape is more properly thought of as a crime of violence, of power over someone, but that’s another matter) against the will of a woman is the same and must be treated and punished […]

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Better minds than mine have worked at this problem and they haven’t found a solution either:

Is there a method of convicting more rapists without convicting large numbers of innocent men? The government has not yet found a way - not through want of trying - and its options are getting fewer and fewer. It may […]

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Yes, DNA science does advance and yes,of couse it would be a good thing to finally clear up the murder of Rachel Nickell. Just one small quibble?

The tests, part of a 13-year reinvestigation into Nickell’s murder, are said to show a one-in-five-million chance that the DNA did not belong to Napper.

Is that what they actually […]

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So it looks as if the death penalty is at least suspended across the US. Good.

The highest criminal appeals court in Texas delayed an execution yesterday in a signal that even the most avid supporters of the death penalty in America are concerned that lethal injections are too cruel.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed […]

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So, group convicted of forging bank notes. Pretty simple crime, if you want to make money, make money, why take an indirect route? One of the gang had been convicted of said crime before but the conviction was overturned. At the printing plant the police found:

McAnea had previously avoided a 10-year sentence for counterfeiting when […]

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