Name of the offence

Question 1

police believe the fire was started deliberately at around 2 o’clock this morning when burning paper was pushed through the letterbox. They are appealing for witnesses to the event.

Answer 1

arson

Question 2

we were in the bar when a man walked up to the victim, pointed a gun at his head and said ‘You’re a dead man.’ Then he pulled the trigger three times

Answer 2

murder

Question 3

you were going in excess of 60, and this is a 30 zone.

Answer 3

careless or reckless driving(speeding)

Question 4

when I got home, I discovered that my back door had been broken open, my new laptop, £200 in cash and my pet parrot were gone

Answer 4

breaking and entering / burglary / theft

Question 5

look, officer, here’s £50. Let’s just pretend this didn’t happen,

Answer 5

bribery

Question 6

distributing pornographic material over the Internet.

Answer 6

obscenity

Question 7

we know you didn’t do the Cornmarket Street bank job yourself, but we know that you were involved somehow.

I was just driving the car Mr Regan, honest. And I didn’t know what the others were up to until they came back with bags of cash

Answer 7

aiding and abetting an offender

Question 8

the car bomb went off in a busy marketplace, injuring several shoppers.

Answer 8

terrorism / wounding

Question 9

the police raided a house and recovered 250 illegal copies of the latest Harry Potter film, along with professional film copying equipment.

Answer 9

video piracy

Question 10

the Foreign Minister has been caught giving government secrets to another country!

Answer 10

espionage

Question 11

now is the time to rise up and overthrow the running dogs that call themselves our government. Death to the Prime Minister and his cronies! Death to the Royal Family! Death to the system that bleeds us dry and abandons us!

Answer 11

sedition

Question 12

I can’t accept this £20 note, madam. It’s a fake

Answer 12

forgery

Question 13

the investigation into the rail accident confirmed that it occurred
because the rail company had failed to maintain the tracks properly over a five-year period. Eight people died when the train left the tracks and hit an embankment

Answer 13

manslaughter

Question 14

the man who came to my door said he had come to read the electric meter, so I let him in. I went to the kitchen to make him a cup of tea. When I returned he had gone, and so had my television.

Answer 14

deception or fraud

Question 15

a journalist working in the city disappeared this morning. Police later received a note from a militant faction claiming that they had taken him and were holding him hostage.

Answer 15

abduction

Question 16

the graffiti around here is getting really bad. Last week somebody wrote ‘Chelsea are rubbish’ on our garden wall.

Answer 16

criminal damage

Question 17

look at this note, Cheri. It arrived in the post today. It says ‘Leave £10,000 in cash in the bin by the bus stop, or I’ll tell everyone your dirty secret’

Answer 17

blackmail

Question 18

Don’t lie, Mr Williams. We have video evidence that you were in the nightclub until 3am. And you were seen by several witnesses

Answer 18

perjury

Question 19

Oh shut up, you silly old judge. Go back home and do some washing up or something

Answer 19

contempt of court

Question 20

We’ve audited these accounts very carefully, and they just don’t add up.

Answer 20

embezzlement

Question 21

a former government intelligence agent, has just published a book about the Intelligence Service called ‘Lifting the Lid’. In it, he gives us a revealing insight into the life of a secret agent.

Answer 21

breach of the Official Secrets Act

Question 22

I saw the accused in a state of undress and dancing on a table

Answer 22

(public) indecency

Question 23

the judge in the trial of notorious gangster Joe ‘Pinko’ Pallino adjourned the court today after it was revealed that several members of the jury had been offered bribes and other incentives to pass a verdict of ‘not guilty’ on Mr Pallino.

Answer 23

perverting the course of justice

Question 24

a bank account was opened in a false name in the Bahamas, and the cash deposited there. The funds were then sent by telegraphic transfer to another account in Switzerland

Answer 24

money laundering