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WHAT HAPPENED ON 26th February 2001?
25th February 2001
BOSNIAN CROATS JAILED FOR WAR CRIMES
The war crimes tribunal in the Hague has jailed a leading Bosnian Croat for 25 years for crimes against humanity. Dario Kordic the first civilian tried by the tribunal was found to have authorised murders of Bosnian Muslims. Presiding judge Richard May said Kordic had used "ruthlessness & savagery". Bosnian Croat commander Mario Cerkez was also jailed 15 years for war crimes. He led attacks on Muslim villages during the war of 1993-4.
26th February 2001
ALL ACTIVE CRIMINALS TO BE DNA RECORDED
The "entire active criminal population" will be recorded on a DNA database by 2004 the Home Secretary has told MPs. Jack Straw said 100 000 hard-core offenders were responsible for about half of all crime. He said sentencing in England & Wales would in future ensure that persistent offending led to harsher punishment. And he announced increases in funding for the Crown Prosecution Service & probation officers.
26th February 2001
CRACKDOWN PLEDGE ON HARD-CORE CRIMINALS
Hard-core criminals who commit half of all crime in Britain will face tougher punishments Tony Blair has pledged. But Mr Blair also offered prisoners better education training & drug treatment to help them stop reoffending "For those who reject this helping hand the message will be equally clear " he said after visiting a London jail. "Rigorously enforced punishments which get progressively tougher the more times an offender returns to court."
25th February 2001
SEVEN-DAY BAN ON BRITAIN'S LIVESTOCK
UK livestock is at a virtual standstill after the Government imposed a seven- day ban on the transport of animals that could carry foot-and-mouth disease All abattoirs & livestock markets in England & Wales will also be shut. The disease has been found at six farms in Essex & Northumberland. Exclusion zones have been imposed on farms in the Isle of Wight Bucks & Gloucs. About 600 farms from Aberdeenshire to the Isle of Wight are being probed.
26th February 2001
ALL ACTIVE CRIMINALS TO BE DNA RECORDED
The "entire active criminal population" will be recorded on a DNA database by 2004 the Home Secretary has told MPs. Jack Straw said 100 000 hard-core offenders were responsible for about half of all crime. He said sentencing in England & Wales would in future ensure that persistent offending led to harsher punishment. And he announced increases in funding for the Crown Prosecution Service & probation officers.
26th February 2001
GOVT SHUTS PATHS TO STOP FOOT-AND-MOUTH
The Government has introduced powers to shut down rights of way in England & Wales in an effort to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth. Under them councils have discretionary rights to shut down paths across individual premises & affected areas. The Scottish Executive is expected to announce similar measures later today. Meanwhile many National Trust & Forestry Commission properties in affected areas have been closed off.
25th February 2001
STRAW PLAN FOR "SUPERBOBBIES" ON BEAT
Senior officers are to be offered pay bonuses to stay on the beat in the fight against crime it is reported. Home Secretary Jack Straw is expected to outline the "superbobby" scheme in tomorrow's launch of Labour's 10-year crime plan says the Sunday Express. The initiative is part of a rethink of the criminal justice system. It will bid to deliver on Tony Blair's promise to be "tough on crime & tough on the causes of crime" says the paper
26th February 2001
ALL ACTIVE CRIMINALS TO BE DNA RECORDED
The "entire active criminal population" will be recorded on a DNA database by 2004 the Home Secretary has told MPs. Jack Straw said 100 000 hard-core offenders were responsible for about half of all crime. He said sentencing in England & Wales would in future ensure that persistent offending led to harsher punishment. And he announced increases in funding for the Crown Prosecution Service & probation officers.
26th February 2001
STRAW ATTACKED FOR COMMENTS ON LAYWERS
The Home Secretary has been condemned by solicitors for suggesting that some lawyers care more about money than their "responsibilities to society". At a crime reduction conference Jack Straw said: "Lawyers never agree except about taking money off clients." But Law Society chief Michael Napier was "astonished" by the commenents. "It is extraordinary that Jack Straw a lawyer himself should disparage the profession in such a way " he said.
25th February 2001
MEMO SHOWS GOVT SOFT ON CRIME ` TORIES
The Conservatives have said a leaked memo by a senior adviser to Home Secretary Jack Straw shows the Government is being soft on crime. It comes as Labour prepares to reveal its 10-year crime strategy which it insists will see more criminals jailed. A memo published in the Sunday Times warns the message could be undermined. It highlights a proposal to reduce all sentences of under one year to three months plus community supervision.
26th February 2001
ALL ACTIVE CRIMINALS TO BE DNA RECORDED
The "entire active criminal population" will be recorded on a DNA database by 2004 the Home Secretary has told MPs. Jack Straw said 100 000 hard-core offenders were responsible for about half of all crime. He said sentencing in England & Wales would in future ensure that persistent offending led to harsher punishment. And he announced increases in funding for the Crown Prosecution Service & probation officers.
26th February 2001
STRAW ATTACKED FOR COMMENTS ON LAYWERS
The Home Secretary has been condemned by solicitors for suggesting that some lawyers care more about money than their "responsibilities to society". At a crime reduction conference Jack Straw said: "Lawyers never agree except about taking money off clients." But Law Society chief Michael Napier was "astonished" by the commenents. "It is extraordinary that Jack Straw a lawyer himself should disparage the profession in such a way " he said.
25th February 2001
FIRE
A police investigation is under way after the bodies of a 42-year-old man & a 23-year-old woman were found following a blaze at a house in Trallwn south Wales. FOOTBALL Liverpool have won the 2001 Worthington Cup final after defeating Birmingham City on penalties at the Millennium Stadium Cardiff. It was held there due to Wembley redevelopment UNIONSA roadshow is due to get under way tomorrow aimed at persuading workers across the UK to back the merger of the AEEU & MSF unions.
26th February 2001
ALL ACTIVE CRIMINALS TO BE DNA RECORDED
The "entire active criminal population" will be recorded on a DNA database by 2004 the Home Secretary has told MPs. Jack Straw said 100 000 hard-core offenders were responsible for about half of all crime. He said sentencing in England & Wales would in future ensure that persistent offending led to harsher punishment. And he announced increases in funding for the Crown Prosecution Service & probation officers.
26th February 2001
GOVT SHUTS PATHS TO STOP FOOT-AND-MOUTH
The Government has introduced powers to shut down rights of way in England & Wales in an effort to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth. Under them councils have discretionary rights to shut down paths across individual premises & affected areas. The Scottish Executive is expected to announce similar measures later today. Meanwhile many National Trust & Forestry Commission properties in affected areas have been closed off.
