Sentence examples for first convicts from inspiring English sources

Battling adversity, after all, is what Australians excel at and have done since 1788, when the first convicts were disgorged on to that fatal shore to build their own prison.

Timberlake Wertenbaker's 1988 play Our Country's Good tells its story from the point of view of the first convicts who arrived in Botany Bay from Britain in the late 18th century.

Banished (BBC2) | iPlayer Storyville: India's Daughter (BBC4) | iPlayer Surviving Sandy Hook (BBC2) | iPlayer Pompidou (BBC2) | iPlayer Arthur & George (ITV) | ITV Player Banished, a thrillingly pot-boiling tale of the first convicts to land in New South Wales in 1788 and their dastardly redcoat overseers, could almost have been written by anyone.

He was first convicted at 16 for heroin possession, and his other convictions include ones for manslaughter and laundering money for organized crime.

He was first convicted of framing Baghdadi in a street clash in 2010 but the conviction was quashed by the court of appeal a year later.

Mr. O'Hara, now 41, was first convicted in 1997.

He was first convicted of raping a child in 1976, state records show.

Mr. Khodorkovsky, who was first convicted in 2005, was returned to Moscow for a second trial and convicted of embezzlement in December 2010.

Knox and Sollecito were first convicted, then, after four years in jail, acquitted.

First convicted for manslaughter in September 2014, Pistorius received a sentence of five years.

When he was first convicted, he was convinced he would be out in no time.