The owners of dangerous dogs involved in violent attacks could face similar penalties to those found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving, Home Office Minister Norman Baker has said.
West Bromwich Albion sacked Lee Hughes after he was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving, the striker jailed for six years after losing control of his car and crashing into another vehicle, in which the passenger, Douglas Graham, was killed and his wife Maureen and the driver Albert Frisby were both seriously injured.
On 9 August 2004, Hughes was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving, and was sentenced to six years imprisonment.
Shabagh protesters objected to the leniency of the sentence, given that Abdul Qader Mollah had been found guilty of the deaths of over 30 people and that "life" on prison for a powerful politician might not be so bad.
2008 11 November Owen and Barker found guilty of causing the death of Peter.
The inmate, Herman Wallace, was originally sent to prison after an armed robbery conviction and was later found guilty of stabbing to death a guard in 1972.
Islamic courts in Nigeria continue to sentence women found guilty of adultery to death by stoning, although higher courts have repeatedly blocked such killings.
Two teenage girls who bullied and beat up a vicar's daughter shortly before she threw herself out of a third floor window were today found guilty of causing her death.
The husband of Nisha Patel-Nasri – the special police constable who was murdered outside her north London home in May 2006 – was yesterday found guilty of organising her death so he could pay off debts and continue his affair with a Lithuanian prostitute.
11 November 2008: Owen, 36, from Bromley, and Barker, then 32, are found guilty of causing the death of Baby Peter.
