Crime and punishment. Crimes and offences. Is killing a person fay accidan t or negligence

kept as a prisoner by a person or organization and may be killed if people don^!t do what the person or

organization are demanding.

1  steals thing's from people’s pockets and handbags in crowded places.

m takes part in a secret plan to do something against the law.

n keeps going back to a life of crime even after being punished. In other words, an. incurable criminal.

o  marries illegally because he or she is already married to someone else.

p deliberately kills someone.

Follow up

Read through the following newspaper extracts and fill in the missing words in the headlines. The word is either a type of crime or a type of criminal. Choose from the words in the previous five exercises.

1

—____________ CAUGHT IN

CELLAR

Last night the police broke into the

cellar of a house in High gate and found thousands of newly-made twenty pound notes which

2

______________ IN PEMBROKE

PARK

The mutilated body of 19-year-old Sam Robertson was found yesterday in Pembroke Park. The police say he was stabbed fourteen times with

3

DARING ________________ FROM

NATIONAL GALLERY

A famous painting by the Dutch artist, Rembrandt, has disappeared from the National Gallery in London. It was taken some time during the night of August 3rd. The police think it may be the work of an international K^ltnK ^(,f

4

FIFTH_________________ IN WILSON

DRIVE

When Mr and Mrs Simmons return«! home last night from the theatre th«y found that someone had broken into theiT house and taken a TV wit, « vititm, £250 and a valuable diamond nooklut» This is Use lift

5

6

__ ____________ CAUGHT IN

PHONE BOX

28-year-old Dwight Kelly was caught last night by detectives when he tried to pick up £250,000 from a phone box in Manchester. This was the sum he had demanded for the safe return of the 7- yeas’-old son of property millionaire Frank Groves who

7

91-YEAR-OLD__________________

TOOK CLOTHES FOE GRANDDAUGHTER'S BIRTHDAY PRESENT

9i-year-old Agnes Drew took £40 worth

of clothes from Marks & Spencer to give to her 16-year-old granddaugher, Carol, for her birthday.

‘1 couldn’t afford to buy her anything,’ she said, ‘so I decided to

9

______________ - ATTEMPT FOILED

Prince Charles came close to being shot

yesterday afternoon while inspecting a factory in Gateshead. Police spotted a man with a high power rifle in the top

window of a building minutes before tho Print* -vas due to pass by. If he had not been spotted the chances are that

BANK________________ CAUGHT BY

LOCAL DOG

When a man walked into Barclays Bank in Brighton and demanded £10,000 from, the cashier he got the shock of his life when a huge Alsatian dog suddenly attacked him. It belonged to one of the bank’s customers who was waiting in the queue. When he realised what was happening he immediately told his dog, Prince, to

8

______________ FREED

Teresa Black, the 17-year-old schoolgirl and her boyfriend, 21-year-old David Barker who were captured by guerillas while on holiday in Nepal, have been allowed to go free. A spokesman for the

10

ACTRESS SUES FOB

Oscar-winning actress Amanda Milligan is suing the Daily Mirror

newspaper for________________ after an

article was published last Saturday claiming that Miss Milligan had undergone extensive plastic surgery to alter her looks arid figure. This is not the first time

(b)  Complete the following sentences with a suitable idiom