offender
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Gloucestershire Police also said that a woman who had previously been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender had been released on police bail.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
The offender wasn’t an outsider managing his money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
It follows a predictable pattern: deny the harm, attack the credibility of the person who named the harm, and reverse the roles of victim and offender.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
Several other people have been arrested in connection with the incident, including two men, aged 24 and 30, and two women, aged 25 and 21, who have been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Every few minutes you turned to look at them, and if you saw one of them moving the offender had to retire to the back line and begin again.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
In August, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said fines for fly-tipping would increase from £300 to £5,000 and offenders could be given up to nine points on their driving licence.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Courts have already sent 217 people, half of them first-time offenders, to prison over the events on Saturday, officials said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
Bafflingly, repertory screenings are where I’ve run into some of the worst offenders.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
Last year, Lynd Fruit Farm in Pataskala, Ohio, warned visitors it would call the sheriff’s office on offenders who hid their pickings at checkout, reporting apple thefts of $80, $160 and $400 at a time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Yet the majority of hate-crime offenders don’t fit the stereotype of the squinting, bristle-headed loner with a swastika tattoo or a Confederate flag T-shirt.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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