All news on the topic: Crown court

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Ashley Dale's haunting final text sent less than 30 minutes before she was shot
Ashley Dale, 28, was shot and killed in her home in Merseyside during summer last year - five men deny her murder as the trial at Liverpool Crown Court continues
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Gunman accused of planning 'Dunblane-style' massacre says it was 'just fantasy'
Reed Wischhusen is on trial at Bristol crown court after he ran towards Avon & Somerset Police officers at his home with a weapon, which he claims was part of a suicide attempt
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Ashley Dale gunman 'went on shopping spree and watched Everton before shooting'
The gunman who killed Ashley Dale after a bullet was fired at her home enjoyed an Everton game before he made his way over the property, Liverpool Crown Court has heard
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Man 'murdered university lecturer wife because he feared she was cheating',
Ertan Ersoy, 51, is accused of killing university lecturer Dr Antonella Castelvedere, who was found stabbed to death on the kitchen floor at their home in Colchester, Essex
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Female police officer 'sexually assaulted junior colleague at Christmas party'
Metropolitan Police officer Rachel Bright, 45, is alleged to have put her hand up a junior colleague's skirt at a work Christmas party where she had been drinking Prosecco all evening, a court heard
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Pensioner mum and dad found 'murdered by 35-year-old daughter', inquest hears
Virginia McCullough, 35, has been accused of killing her parents John and Lois McCullough between August 2018 and September this year. Inquests were opened in Chelmsford today
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Callous pregnant carer steals £9k from elderly clients 'because everyone does'
Elisha Handley, 33, from Birmingham, claimed "everyone was taking money" after stealing more than £9,000 from elderly people while working as a care worker, a court heard
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Moment Ashley Dale murder accused is arrested 'with knife' at Glastonbury
Ashley Dale, 28, was hit in the abdomen by a bullet when gunman James Witham, 41, kicked down the door of her home in Liverpool on August 21 last year, a trial at Liverpool Crown Court has heard
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All the warning signs that showed mum, 47, would murder 24-year-old boyfriend
The family of Kasey Anderson, who was brutally killed before his 25th birthday, have shared the warning signs his killer girlfriend, Natalie Bennett, displayed before she stabbed him in the heart
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Drug dealer jailed after mum finds gun while tidying his bedroom and calls cops
Owen Walker, from Worcester, has been jailed for drug dealing after his mum found a gun in his bedroom while she was tidying and called the police leading to his arrest
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Company boss stamped on frail customer with steel toe-capped boots in money row
Owner of skip company Digaway Daniel Jenkins was jailed for two years and two months for attacking a customer on his own driveway in Pontllanfraith near Blackwood
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Family terrorised village by slashing tyres and dealing drugs from ice cream van
Lynne Leyson was the 'dominant force' behind her family's drug business that pushed out cocaine and cannabis across swathes of south west Wales before her husband and son were caught and arrested and she went on the run
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Video showing moment teen dies in drink drive crash released by grieving parents
Phoebe Johnson was just days away from turning 18 when she was killed in the passenger's seat of Melissa Keilloh's car near the Leicestershire border- 15 minutes before the crash Melissa told Phoebe and her pal she was drunk
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Speeding driver killed pal after clowning around just a month after passing test
The teen driver, now 20, had only passed her driving test a month ago when she lost control of her car while driving down a straight stretch of road and crashed down an embankment and into a tree
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Gran who worked same job for years unmasked as thief who swiped £163,000
Patricia Bennett was found to have swindled the company she worked at for 25 years of £163,000, .
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Man brutally beat girlfriend after she sold his dog while he was in prison
Lee Whewell was jailed for two years after a court heard of a violent outburst against his partner left her with large wounds to the back of her head which needed to be glued shut at hospital
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Thug murdered daughter's father-in-law in broad daylight after wedding gifts row
Ahmad Al Sino fatally stabbed dentist Mohammed Salem Ibrahim, 55, and slashed his son Aram at their home in Birmingham in March following a row over wedding gifts
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Disqualified driver gave police best friend's details after crashing into car
Charlotte Evans had used her close friend's name to take out car insurance, as well as giving the name and date of birth of Chloe Cavell to police following a collision
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Extradited pensioner from Pakistan denies police officer's murder
Piran Ditta Khan is accused of being involved in the deadly robbery of a travel agent 18 years ago. At Leeds crown court, he pleaded not guilty to Sharon Beshenivsky's murder
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Moment Holly Willoughby finds out about 'plot to murder and kidnap her'
Holly Willoughby was forced to pull out of presenting Thursday's episode of This Morning following Gavin Plumb's alleged kidnap and murder plans
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Sickening messages nurses shared about drugging patients at work
Catherine Hudson and Charlotte Wilmot talked about stealing drugs for their own use and laughed about sedating patients to make shifts at Blackpool Victoria Hospital easier
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Simple mistake that lead to downfall of 'Cleo' hotline offering daily drug deals
Sophia McAllister, from Greater Manchester, who ran a class A drugs hotline named "Cleo" where she took thousands of calls has been jailed after police traced the calls to her phone
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Moment teen kills girl, 17, in car crash after saying she was too drunk to drive
Dashcam footage shows Melissa Keilloh telling her friends she was drunk just moments before she careered off the road in a horror crash that killed her 17-year-old friend
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Nurse drugged stroke victims so she could have an 'easy life' during work shifts
Catherine Hudson drugged two patients for an “easy life” during work shifts at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Jurors at Preston Crown Court also convicted her of conspiring to administer a sedative to a third patient
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Upskirting pervert banned from every McDonald's toilet in UK caught at it again
Asere Shumba, 28, the court hearsd 'stalked' several women around the restaurant and proceeded to film them for his own sexual pleasure. He kept his identity disclosed by wearing a Covid mask toavid identification