Sentence examples for damaging offences from inspiring English sources

Kath Coleman, sexual offences specialist for CPS Gwent, said that although rape remained one of the most serious and damaging offences, there was no escaping the fact that it was also one of the most difficult to prosecute.

More then 150 people were arrested for public disorder and criminal damage offences following confrontations with police, who had laid on more than 4,500 officers.

Criminal damage offences occur earlier in the evening than violence.

Five men were also arrested on Monday for handling stolen goods and criminal damage offences in connection with the investigation, police said.

In April, the EU justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, warned that crossborder pursuits of bicycle thieves, piglet rustlers and those accused of trivial offences was damaging the authority of the European arrest warrant (EAW).

A number of statutory provisions creating offences of damaging specific types of property were consolidated by 7 & 8 Geo.4 c.30 (1827) (Malicious injuries to property) which was one of Peel's Acts.

The jail time applied whether the offence was damaging a valuable item or stealing a packet of biscuits.

The main cause for these cases included drug related offences, stealing or damaging assets or properties, and physical assaults or murder.

Today's figures also showed the largest falls in crime recorded by the police were for criminal damage and offences against vehicles, down 17% and 12% respectively.

"The treatment of the Guttenberg case as a minor offence damages both Germany as a place of scholarship and Germany's credibility as the 'Land of Ideas,"' he wrote.

When is a "gaffe" really a gaffe, the kind of unguarded remark that causes legitimate offence, damages good causes and leaves its author permanently scarred by their own behaviour?