Rapists and sex attackers should face tougher prison terms according to the Sentencing Council, which points to the psychological and long-term effect...

The occasion is what counts - and an appreciation that if you don't provide enough of an deterrent, more and more people will start creating public dangers and destroying sporting events in the name of meaningless causes. Call this elitist if you will, but at least my name's not Trenton.

A driver has been convicted of causing the deaths of four people by careless driving after hitting a car which plunged into an isolated reservoir. ...

Anti-paedophile vigilante Christopher Hunnisett who murdered a gay man he wrongly believed to be a child molester was told on Tuesday he may never be ...

Violent killer Elliot Turner was told he can "put away thoughts of champagne, Bentleys and girls" by the judge as she sentenced him to 16 years behind...

Street dealers caught with heroin, cocaine or thousands of pounds worth of cannabis could avoid jail under new guidelines for judges which come into f...

Two men jailed for four years for setting up Facebook pages inciting others to riot have challenged their "manifestly excessive" custodial t...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- The comedian who threw a foam pie at Rupert Murdoch has had his jail sentence reduced on appeal. Jonathan May-Bowles, 26, plea...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- The brother of Premier League footballer Titus Bramble has been jailed for four and a half years after being convicted of rape. ...

Norway has legislation in place to deal with men such as Breivik and should be left to do so without lurid and inaccurate speculation by foreign media on letting him "get off Scott free" or any of the other tabloid hyperbole synonymous with liberal sentencing policies.