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Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard that Joshua Clulow, 27, turned on the 16-year-old boy who had tried to pull a woman away from harm - and he has now been put in prison

Julia and Jessica Shelley stole a bag of materials from their family friend, Maureen Webb, 79. But the seamstress and her husband were left injured following a 'tussle' with the sisters in Merseyside

Kyle Stafford, 23, left a couple with a half-done roof at their property in Leyland, which experts say didn't 'even meet the standard of a DIYer' after he vanished during the job

More than 730 people were prosecuted by the Post Office between 2000 and 2014, and had their lives ripped apart as they served time in prison, declared bankruptcy and even lost their lives

Former police officer James Riley attempted to murder his girlfriend after a failed attempt at rekindling the relationship, leaving her in an induced coma following the horror attack

Little Alfie Phillips, described as "good as gold", was found murdered with a myriad of bruises, a broken leg, arm and ribs at his home in Hernhill, Kent. He also had cocaine in his little body

Curtis Warren, who appeared at Liverpool Crown Court today, was subject to a serious crime prevention order which he is said to have breached upon his release from jail

Michelle Atherton, 47, died in a crash in St Helens, Merseyside, with her boyfriend Kevin Marsh, 43, later convicted of causing death by dangerous driving and sentenced for 16 years

Carer Clair Sohail, 48, Balderton, Nottinghamshire, stole £16,800 from her vulnerable client, 71, after he died, and then spent it on a TV, a luxury trip to Spain and other catalogue purchases

Shania Begum, 25, worked as a prison officer at Category B HMP Birmingham where she had an "inappropriate relationship" with prisoner Joshua Mullings, and has been locked up for 16 months

A court heard how predator Jason Hoodlass, 27, came across the girls while they played at the seafront arcades in Cleethorpes and befriended them before he abducted and assaulted them

Rapist Curtis Otley from Bristol was jailed for targeting underage girls and threatening them for his own gain as Avon & Somerset Police praised his brave victims for speaking out

The 28-year-old was caught hacking his colleagues emails, posting abuse online and tricking Subway customers into calling the Waterloo control room to make food orders

Kevin Marsh drank gin and snorted cocaine as he watched a Bear Grylls show on Netflix hours before getting behind the wheel in St Helens with Michelle Atherton in the passenger seat

Two days after Georgia Harrison enters the villa near Cape Town in South Africa for Love Island All Stars, her jailed ex Stephen Bear will be released from prison

Jack Frankland has been jailed after stealing Rolex Sea-Dweller Deepsea watch valued at £10,750 from an elderly victim during a meeting arranged on Facebook Marketplace

Ivan Bonaparte, 33, carried out the horrific boiling oil attack in the hope of going to prison, after he faced eviction because he spent all his rent money on drugs

Birmingham criminal Olsian Vogli and Londoner Orest Malushi have been jailed for almost eight years after stashing £100,000 drug money inside a Lidl carrier bag

Prison officer Megan Breen appeared at Cardiff Crown Court accused of carrying out the affair with an unnamed male inmate across two jails - HMP Usk and HMP Prescoed - in Gwent, South Wales

Five men and three women are on trial after violence erupted in Liverpool outside a hotel housing refugees. Police were pelted with lit fireworks among other missiles

Jonathon Wood, 50, told a judge "thanks for ruining my life" after he was jailed for a vicious attack where he beat his victim using a suspected pool ball inside a sock in Chesterfield town centre

Bethany Cox, 22, has been cleared after being charged with taking a drug in July 2020, with her initially being accused of intending to destroy the life of a child that was capable of being born alive

The criminals were jailed for a total of 54 years after footage emerged of them using hammers, knives, and even an axe to threaten a number of businesses across the West Midlands

Jan Gholami was accused of taking out his “bad temper” on little Zahra Ghulami and bashing her head against a wall. He and his wife Roqia Ghulam denied murder

Buathip Kendray, from Suffolk, was furious after she discovered that her former boyfriend Steven Woods had moved on with someone else - she smashed her way through his home to confront the pair