Sentence examples for shocking offence from inspiring English sources

Or someone in prison for a shocking offence who pleads to be freed to die in their own home?

Indeed, those who do know about the bill regard it as a shocking offence to open justice – the principle that cases are heard and decided in public – and natural justice, where a person can expect to see the evidence presented by the other party and receive a fair hearing.

One of the five judges called his offences "shocking and heinous", but also noted how the defendant had followed orders in a coercive climate, and had since co-operated with the tribunal and shown remorse.Most Cambodians at the trial thought the sentence unconscionably lenient.

Shocking moment to shocking moment.

In a month where we've seen victim-blaming attitudes surface and swirl in conversations about the Ched Evans case, and heavy sighs over Dapper Laughs and his "jokes" about rape, it was one last punch in the gut to read a new report revealing that a shocking 26% of all sexual offences (including rape) reported to police are not even recorded as crimes.

It's shocking because it must be an offence to suborn a police officer, and the chequebook-enticed leaking from police investigations has all too often compromised them so seriously that no prosecution has been possible.

But appeal judge Lord Justice Pitchford said his offences were "of such shocking depravity that they demanded a lengthy prison sentence".

Appeal judges said his offences were "of such shocking depravity that they demanded a lengthy prison sentence".

Commenting on Watkins' case, the lord justice said: "These were offences against infant children of such shocking depravity that a very lengthy sentence of imprisonment was demanded, not withstanding the absence of physical injury.

However, the offence to his rights as a law abiding citizen are shocking and he is due an apology.

Yesterday the details of his offences, stripped of all media hype, were even more shocking for being read out in court.