Sentence examples for offences continue from inspiring English sources

Tragically, these offences continue with impunity, leaving victims devastated and without food, shelter or medical care.

"However, it is not easy to evidence this from the existing published data because reported offences continue to be presented in such a way that they reflect the age at the time the offence took place, but not at reporting.

The number of reported offences continued to decline in the following years as the popularity of the programme waned and its eponymous star grew steadily older.

Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent While violent crime ticked up in the UK in 2016, the overall level of offences continued its long-term decline to the lowest level since 1981.

Homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967 by reforming home secretary Roy Jenkins (Scotland had to wait until 1980, and Northern Ireland until 1982), but prosecutions for sexual offences continued to snare many gay men into the 90s.

No Offence continues a reassuring recent trend, after the challenging Happy Valley and the more soapy Scott & Bailey.

Reclassification will mean the maximum penalty for unlawful possession of ketamine will increase from two to five years in jail, while the maximum penalty for trafficking offences will continue to be 14 years' imprisonment.

On the other hand, in recent years the types of crime which long provided the bread and butter work of bobbies – drunken thuggery; property theft and robberies; gun, gang and knife crime; even drugs offences – have continued their remarkable and precipitous declines.

They suggested the number of sexual offences reported could continue to rise over the coming months, as people come forward to report historic offences.

Thirty countries still have the death penalty for drug offences and many continue to use it despite clear advice that this breaches the UN charter.

"He may well miss further games although I think he'll be sorry enough so there shouldn't be anything over and above what is expected for such an offence," he continued.