All news on the topic: Crown court

A jury has been sworn in for the trial of a man from Cornwall accused of murdering two other men.

A teacher who murdered his adopted baby son bought a £450,000 new-build home with his boyfriend to reinvent themselves just 22 days after the tot’s death.

A stepmother has been jailed for 12 years for killing a five-year-old girl by scalding her in a hot bath as a punishment nearly half a century ago.

A teacher will die in jail for the murder and sexual abuse of his adopted baby son. Teacher Jamie Varley, 37, has been sentenced to a whole life order for the murder and sexual abuse of his adopted baby, Preston Davey.

A drug dealer who showed off his luxury lifestyle on Instagram by posing with Rolex watches, driving a Lamborghini and splashing more than £1,200 in cash on a meal at Salt Bae’s restaurant has been jailed.

A Nationwide cashier who stole thousands of pounds from vulnerable customers has been jailed after she was caught out by colleagues when she posted Facebook pictures of her ’lavish’ holidays.

There’s a celebratory atmosphere among a group of friends when they are told their hometown has the highest rate of cocaine use in Europe.

Data from the Ministry of Justice indicate that there were 80,203 outstanding cases at the end of last year, which is an 8% increase from the 74,106 recorded in the previous 12 months.

A single mother planning to get her loft converted so she could foster children was left broken by Britain’s worst cowboy builder.

More than 15 months later, one of his feet was found washing up in Sweden, while his other foot appeared the same month on Winterton beach with a trainer and socks.

A man who initiated an unprovoked knife attack on two strangers at a London tube station has been sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment.

A tax officer based in Bradford who scammed the system to pocket more than £211,000 has been jailed for three years for fraud and money laundering.

A 67-year-old woman from Tenby will appear in Crown Court this November for two historic offences of benefit fraud.

An asylum seeker has been jailed for stealing from an Oxford University college and “biting” a rare plant.

An American woman who wore a niqab disguise and tried to shoot a stranger dead in the street only for the gun to jam is facing a life sentence.

Humberside Police began its investigation into Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in March of last year.

A sex offender who secretly took nearly 800 pictures of men using the toilets in Aldi has been jailed.

A man has been found guilty of murder after intentionally hitting an e-bike rider with his car to "teach him a lesson" for doing a wheelie, police said.

A retired police officer has been cleared by a jury for knocking two people off an electric motorbike in order to "protect life".

More than 350 people had to be evacuated because their properties were at risk during the blaze in August - with some residents still unable to return home.

Grant Lester was caught after an undercover police officer became suspicious of his car.

Philip Hamer’s victims wept in the public gallery as he was jailed at Manchester Crown Court.