All news on the topic: Court of Appeals

Mohammed ‘Skinny’ Sajid was imprisoned for 18 years after being convicted of an axe attack. But after a recording appeared to show police involvement in a witness statement, he appealed the conviction

Jordan McSweeney appeared before the Court of Appeal in a bid to reduce his 38-year sentence for murdering Zara Aleena in Ilford, East London, where his barrister argued the attack had been 'opportunistic'

Earlier this month, a High Court judge ruled doctors can lawfully stop treating 20-year-old Andy Casey, who suffered a serious brain injury after being punched from behind in a pub garden in July

The 33-year-old former neonatal nurse formally filed a bid to challenge her conviction at the Court of Appeal last week following her whole-life order sentence. We hear from experts who outline her 'uphill battle' and motives...

James Watson, 42, was handed a minimum jail term of 15 years in 2022 after being convicted of murdering six-year-old Rikki Neave, who was found strangled in Peterborough in 1994

James Watson was jailed for life for murdering six-year-old Rikki Neave, who was strangled to death in woodlands, but Watson has challenged his conviction on grounds evidence was lost

James Watson, now 41, was jailed in June last year for the murder of six-year-old Rikki Neave, whose body was found in woodland five minutes from his home in Welland, Peterborough in 1994

Jodey Whiting died in February 2017 after her disability benefit was stopped. Her mother Joy Dove took her fight for a new inquest to the Court of Appeal - and it has now been granted