The typical fraudster commits multiple offences over an extended period of time before being detected.

Multiple offences can lead to life sentences.

Ninety-six per cent of such prisoners have one or more conviction, often for multiple offences, and three quarters have seven or more.

Some of the 1,133 arrests were for multiple offences.

I saw a penalty offence and gave it.

But often some piece of sloppiness would result in a move ending knock-on, or penalty offence.

It's not a penalty offence in my opinion.

Other measures, which dramatically reduce the number of penalty offences in favour of free kicks, are seen here as a cheat's charter.

Indeed, swathes of penalty offences have been swept away.

Unless it's a petty offence committed many years ago, why are these people allowed to live here?

He was in and out for petty offences for the next 14 years.

The dad of two was a baker but had convictions from 2000 for petty offences.

She distinguishes existing fixed penalties and conditional cautions from tackling large numbers of petty offences outside courts.

Council leaders will admit today that public confidence in surveillance powers has been seriously undermined because they have been used to snoop on people suspected of petty offences.

A spokeswoman for the academy clarified that sandwiches and crisps were allowed, but 'lobster and caviar' would be a punishable offence.

He even suggested that bunking school classes should be a punishable offence.

I never knew it was a punishable offence.

It will be a punishable offence in future to save files with uninformative names like 'article'.

Any violations of these court orders shall be a serious punishable offence incuring punitive repercussions.

The cop was also held on suspicion of a drink-drive related offence but was not breath-tested.

The six are all accused of various related offences.

The prison officer and his friend were jailed for related offences.

But there are already sufficient legal remedies available to them - squatters can be fined or arrested for a range of related offences.

Six other defendants have already been convicted and sentenced to a total of more than 19 years for related offences.

Fines for breaching the new rules will also be increased to £100 and will double for each repeat offence, up to a maximum of £3,200.

This doubles with each repeat offence up to a maximum of £960.

A repeat offence would result in prosecution.

He recently left three players out of his team for the repeat offence of missing the bus.

He knew he was being scrutinized closely for a repeat offence.

Send a clear message by ensuring that any serious offence equals immediate expulsion.

I've agreed to consider whether a serious offence committed on public transport could be an aggravated offence in sentencing.

They have to have been jailed for a minimum of 30 months, implying a very serious offence.

The watchdog ruled it was 'likely to cause serious offence'.

The judge said that detectives did not seem to realise that this was a serious offence committed by a group against a vulnerable person.

No one really wants to accuse a colleague of something dodgy, especially if it's for a relatively trivial offence such as nicking stationery.

He has thrown her out of his house for some trivial offence.

Supporters reply that their officers are no longer wasting their time on trivial offences.

Many trivial offences were created after agencies asked ministers to introduce them through secondary legislation.

The riots had caused widespread fear and anxiety, ruled one judge, meaning that what appeared in isolation to be trivial offences were much more serious and merited tough action.