BLOG: Facebook rioters’ sentence

By Jon Robins

21 October 2011 | 4:50 pm

Crime

By Jon Robins

21 October 2011 | 4:50 pm

BLOG: Facebook rioters’ sentence

KIM EVANS AND FRANCIS FITZGIBBON QC: On Wednesday, the appeals of Blackshaw and Sutcliffe, the so called ‘Facebook Rioters’ were dismissed in The High Court, and their prison sentences upheld. Read Kim’s blog here and Francis’s blog here.

Author: Jon Robins

Jon is editor of the Justice Gap. He is a criminology lecturer at Brighton University and a freelance journalist. Books include Justice in a Time of Austerity (Bristol University Press, 2021), Guilty Until Proven Innocent (Biteback, 2018), The First Miscarriage of Justice (Waterside Press, 2014), The Justice Gap (LAG, 2009) and People Power (Daily Telegraph/LawPack, 2008). Jon is twice winner of the Bar Council's journalism award and has won Halsbury Legal's journalism award

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BLOG: Facebook rioters’ sentence

BLOG: Facebook rioters’ sentence

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