Sentence examples for offences to end from inspiring English sources

What lessons are there to be learnt from the case, apart from the gaping flaws in the system which allowed a man with a crowded history of violent, perverse sexual offences to end up as a school caretaker?

"It seems your new role, marital status and residence brought these offences to an end".

While the 1967 Sexual Offences Act finally legalised homosexuality, it did little to end public and police persecution.

Mr Khodorkovsky's real offence was the fact that his first prison sentence was due to end.

"If we were to end up with a 10-point deduction next season it would feel like we are being punished twice for the same offence.

Every year, about 50,000 people are arrested in New York City for possession of marijuana – most of them ordinary people, not criminals, whose only offence was to accidentally end up within the orbit of a police officer.

More serious offences could end in corporal punishment, which was administered in the chapterhouse by the sub-dean and witnessed by the chapter.

Adolescents were all suspect of one or more offences (as formulated in youth criminal law), ranging from property offences to sexual offences, violent offences and arson.

The report noted that 40% of child sexual exploitation victims are caught committing offences and often end up being punished by the criminal justice system for crimes committed in relation to child exploitation instead of being helped.

Admittedly, Paul Abbott's Shameless may not have portrayed it as the most stable of places – but both it and Abbott's recent crime drama No Offence do end up capturing a lot of the city's warmth and wit as well.

The boys were good friends, and after Johnny served his time in prison for cocaine offences, they ended up sharing a flat together.