Cards (10)

    • Pollicles/laws
      Individual campaigns to change policies or laws
    • Ann
      • Julie's mother, vowed to bring her daughter's killer to justice, having to ensure the abolition of an 800-year-old law to do so
    • Ming's campaign to abolish the double jeopardy law

      1. What the campaign was about
      2. Key parties involved
    • The double jeopardy law prevents a second prosecution for the same offence after an acquittal or conviction
    • Julie was killed in her Billingham, Teesside, home in 1989 and Dunlop was put on trial for the murder. However, in 1991 a jury at Newcastle Crown Court failed to reach a verdict. A second trial took place after that year but, after a different jury failed to reach a verdict, Dunlop was formally cleared
    • Dunlop later confessed to killing Julie in the belief that the double jeopardy law prevented him from going back on trial for the murder. He was convicted of perjury, which is lying in court under oath, but no action could be taken in connection with the murder
    • Owl Ace Act 2003
      Law that was abolished
    • Clare's law
      • Campaign to create a scheme that allows people to find out, from the police, if their partner has a history of domestic violence
      • Championed by Clare Wood's father, Michael Brown, after Clare was killed by her violent partner
    • Bobby Tumbull's anti-gun campaign
      • Launched a petition, which gained 20,000 signatures, regularly appeared in the media seeking support and lobbied MPs for changes
      • Amendments to the Firearms Act 1968 came into effect, preventing any person who receives a suspended sentence of three months or more, for any offence, from purchasing or possessing a firearm
      • Every incident of domestic violence, whether or not firearms are involved, should prompt a police review of whether a firearms certificate should continue
    • Lillian's law

      • Campaign to introduce roadside drugs testing devices, make it a criminal offence to drive under the influence of drugs, have random drug spot checks and give tougher sentences on those found guilty of drug driving
      • Launched after 14-year-old Lillian Groves was killed outside her home by a speeding motorist who had been smoking cannabis
      • Natasha and Gary Groves collected more than 22,000 signatures on a petition and met the Prime Minister, David Cameron, at Downing Street
      • Changes to the law were introduced by the Drug Driving (Specified Limits) (England and Wales) Regulations 2014
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