May 5th, 2012 
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Two teenage boys who subjected an 11-year-old girl to a “campaign of sexual assaults” have been ordered to be detained.Ibraheem Giwa, 15, of Wolsey Avenue, Upton Park, was given five years and his friend, a 16 year-old from the Newham area, was given 12 months.The offences took place between September 2009 and March 2010.
At Inner London Crown Court Judge Patricia Lees lifted media restrictions on naming Giwa.
May 5th, 2012 charlie bubbles 
A man has been acquitted of murdering his art student girlfriend on the grounds of insanity.Mark Jarvie went on trial accused of strangling and stabbing Jane Kelly, 22, in the bedroom of his family home in Powmill, Kinross, in October last year. May 4th, 2012 charlie bubbles 
Prosecutors in the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor have said he should be handed an 80-year sentence following his war crimes conviction in The Hague last week.In a brief, the team told the Special Court for Sierra Leone the “extreme magnitude” of the crimes he committed warranted the long-term sentence. May 4th, 2012 charlie bubbles 
A man has been acquitted of murdering gangland figure Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll after a judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict him.Ross Monaghan, 30, denied shooting Mr Carroll, 29, in the Asda car park in Robroyston, Glasgow, in January 2010. May 4th, 2012 charlie bubbles Inmates at Liverpool Prison are being subjected to a “crude punishment system” which has little emphasis on encouraging good behaviour when there is not enough evidence to support formal charges against them, inspectors have said.
Some of the 1,250 inmates at the large 19th century jail are being automatically moved to a newly-created “reintegration” unit on a specific wing in what seemed to be a “subversion of formal disciplinary procedures”, the report found.
May 3rd, 2012 charlie bubbles 
For many decades, the U.S. recidivism rate – the rate at which released prisoners return to prison or get convicted again – has hovered around two-thirds or 70%. In other words, our correctional methods don’t rehabilitate very well. A wise prison warden in 1912 set forth the requirements of a good prison system, but our society has not listened to his advice.
May 3rd, 2012 charlie bubbles 
A man barred from protesting at the site of an Olympic basketball training facility has been ordered by a court to stay away from all Games venues.Simon Moore was jailed in April after admitting to public order offences over a protest at Leyton Marsh, east London.