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25/01/2008
Bailed Offender Crimes On MP's Agenda
Offenders and accused offenders on bail are committing serious crimes – even murder – when on bail.
The problem is so serious that the Justice Secretary Jack Straw is now to meet MPs to discuss a series of killings that have been committed by men who had been released on bail.
This follows a complaint by Helen Jones, Labour MP for Warrington North, about the release of Adam Swellings.
The nineteen-year-old murdered Garry Newlove hours after his release.
Mr Straw will also meet the MP for Hemel Hempstead, where former policeman Garry Weddell is thought to have shot his mother-in-law while on bail.
Mr Newlove, 47, died two days after being "kicked like a football" when he confronted a gang in Warrington in August 2007.
One of the conditions of Swellings' bail release had been that he did not go to Warrington.
Swellings, 19, of Meredith Street, Crewe, Stephen Sorton, 17 of Honister Avenue, Warrington, and Jordan Cunliffe, 16, were convicted of the sales manager's murder.
After the verdict, Helen Newlove, 44, said she was disgusted that Swellings was allowed to go free and later kill her husband.
She said: "We knew he had previous convictions but it was a shock to myself and to my family to hear he had been released that day.
"I'm absolutely disgusted. These magistrates - it's unbelievable. They let him out and they walk the streets. He's not taken a blind bit of notice of the conditions of bail.
"He's gone out, got drunk and taken drugs and my husband has been left dead."
(BMcC)
The problem is so serious that the Justice Secretary Jack Straw is now to meet MPs to discuss a series of killings that have been committed by men who had been released on bail.
This follows a complaint by Helen Jones, Labour MP for Warrington North, about the release of Adam Swellings.
The nineteen-year-old murdered Garry Newlove hours after his release.
Mr Straw will also meet the MP for Hemel Hempstead, where former policeman Garry Weddell is thought to have shot his mother-in-law while on bail.
Mr Newlove, 47, died two days after being "kicked like a football" when he confronted a gang in Warrington in August 2007.
One of the conditions of Swellings' bail release had been that he did not go to Warrington.
Swellings, 19, of Meredith Street, Crewe, Stephen Sorton, 17 of Honister Avenue, Warrington, and Jordan Cunliffe, 16, were convicted of the sales manager's murder.
After the verdict, Helen Newlove, 44, said she was disgusted that Swellings was allowed to go free and later kill her husband.
She said: "We knew he had previous convictions but it was a shock to myself and to my family to hear he had been released that day.
"I'm absolutely disgusted. These magistrates - it's unbelievable. They let him out and they walk the streets. He's not taken a blind bit of notice of the conditions of bail.
"He's gone out, got drunk and taken drugs and my husband has been left dead."
(BMcC)
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One of the gang convicted of killing father-of-three Garry Newlove is considering launching an appeal against his sentence, it has been reported. Adam Swellings, 19, from Crewe, was jailed for life on Monday, along with 17-year-old Stephen Sorton from Warrington and 16-year-old Jordan Cunliffe, formerly of Warrington.
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The widow of Garry Newlove, who was murdered a group of drunken teenagers, has called for the death penalty to be brought back. Speaking to 'The Sun', Helen Newlove, 45, said that she thought the teenagers who murdered her 47-year-old husband should "pay the ultimate price".
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Teen Gang Killers Get 'Life' Sentences
The three teenagers who kicked an innocent householder "like a football" after he confronted them about vandalism outside his Cheshire home in August, have been jailed. All of the defendants were previously found guilty and have now been jailed for life for the murder of dad-of-three Garry Newlove.
Teen Gang Killers Get 'Life' Sentences
The three teenagers who kicked an innocent householder "like a football" after he confronted them about vandalism outside his Cheshire home in August, have been jailed. All of the defendants were previously found guilty and have now been jailed for life for the murder of dad-of-three Garry Newlove.
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