When you hear the term criminal lawyer, you don’t normally associate it with lawyers undertaking criminal acts.
However, it seems members of the legal profession are as susceptible to behaving on the wrong side of the law as the rest of us.
From the 1920's until the 1980's, tens of thousands of Irish children who were put in the care of the state were sent to various orphanages, centres for young offenders and industrial schools run by the Catholic Church.
In these schools they suffered horrible abuse including physical abuse described as "sadistic" and they were kept in states of near starvation.
Prime Minister Tony Blair promised yesterday that victims of the London bombings will be paid compensation, which as of this date; they have yet to receive a penny.
On Sunday's airing of the BBC's Sunday AM programme, the Prime Minister also promised to look into the matter himself.
A convicted rapist won £7 million in a UK lottery after purchasing a lotto ticket while on temporary release from serving a life sentence in prison.
Iorworth Hoare, aged 52, currently earns £30,000 interest per month, but the unsuspecting community is paying out £120,000 to provide him protection granted by the Home Office, following his release in March 2005.
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