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R v Grewal - 2010
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At the time of the incident, the defendant was a student who had become drunk after drinking too many free cocktails at a......
R v Powell and English
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In the first case, the appellants Powell (P) and Daniels (D), and another person went to the house of a drug dealer. As soon as he opened the door......
R v Craig and Bentley - 1952
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Derek William Bentley (B), 19, and Christopher Craig (C), 16, attempted to burgle a warehouse. B carried a knife and a knuckle-duster......
R v Cooper; R v Schaub
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The defendants met the victim at a bar and asked her to show them where the nightclubs were in the area. The victim ultimately......
R v Jheeta - 2007
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The defendant and the victim were in a consensual sexual relationship. The defendant began sending anonymous threatening messages to the victim......
R v Stephenson - 1979
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The appellant attempted to sleep in a hollow which he had made in a haystack. Because he was cold, he started a fire in that hollow....
R v Dowds - 2012
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The defendant, Dowds (D), killed his partner with a knife by inflicting 60 wounds on her. He sought to rely on the partial defence of......
R v Crutchley
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Ann Crutchley (AC) strangled her newborn baby. The two surgeons testifying in the case stated that the strangling had taken place before......
R v Parker - 1977
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The appellant had tried (and failed) to place a telephone call in a street telephone booth. This infuriated him and in a rage......
R v Flatt
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Flatt had a drug addiction and fell in debt to his supplier to the value of £1,500. The supplier had told the appellant to take possession of some drugs......
R v Steer
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Steer went to his business partner’s property rang the doorbell and after no answer, fired a rifle at the bedroom and sitting room windows and the door......
R v Gurpinar; R v Kojo-Smith and Caton
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Mr Gurpinar and Mr Kojo-Smith were convicted of murder. Mr Gurpinar claimed self-defence, accident and lack of intent to cause serious injury......
R v Bunch - 2013
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The defendant, Bunch, murdered the victim in front of her husband by stabbing her more than 20 times after the relationship between the two ended....
R v C (Barry)
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The defendant was convicted on a number of counts of sexual and violent offences against four different women between the years of 1967-1987....
R v Mowatt
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The defendant and a friend were out late at night, and came across the victim, at which point the defendant knocked the victim......
R v Marangwanda
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The defendant was responsible for assisting in caring for two young children, as he was engaged in a romantic relationship......
R v Quayle
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The appellants appealed against convictions for the cultivation, production and possession of cannabis and cannabis resin....
R v Clarkson; R v Carroll; R v Dodd
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The defendants were drinking when they heard sounds indicating that a woman was being raped. They entered the room where the sounds......
R v Miller - 1954
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The defendant, Mr Miller, had been the husband of the victim who, at the time of the alleged offence, had left the respondent and filed......
R v Griffiths
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The defendant was a seller of limes who entered into a conspiracy with seven lime farmers to defraud the Ministry of Agriculture......
R v Rostron - 2003
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Both R and C appealed against their conviction. They argued that the golf balls were abandoned by their original owners and, thus, removal......
R v St George - 1840
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The Defendant (St. George) got into an argument with the victim, a Mr Durant. During the course of this argument, the Defendant took out a gun and......
R v Saw - 2009
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Five appellants sought leave to appeal their sentences and a sixth appellant appealed against his sentence for burglary of an occupied dwelling house....
R v Martin - 1881
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The defendant decided to play a practice joke on theatre goers by barring the exits to a playhouse, cutting the lights on the exits......
R v Mullen [2000] QB 520
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Mullen was brought back to England from Zimbabwe due to being wanted by the police. Upon his arrival, he was arrested and later convicted of conspiracy......
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