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A growing number of suspects are being locked up in limbo while they wait sometimes years for a trial, as campaigners warn people should be considered innocent until proven guilty

Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven premature babies and attempting to kill six more at The Countess of Chester Hospital - making her Britain's most prolific child killer

Today is the first time we can report all of the verdicts in this tragic case against nurse Lucy Letby now that restrictions have been lifted - it comes after the jury Manchester Crown Court deliberated for more than 90 hours

Georgia Bilham was cleared by a jury of all but one of the 17 alleged offences after going on trial at Chester Crown Court. She was found guilty of sexual assault

Lucy Letby told one worried mum to "trust" her because "I'm a nurse", when in fact she was "playing God", targeting defenceless premature babies in a "cold, calculating" manner

Lucy Letby, 33, was working as a nurse at the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, where she was accused of murdering seven babies and trying to kill 10 others

Hundreds of mourners came together to remember Ann Blackwood, a "caring and kind-hearted" mother allegedly killed by her ex-husband over their late son's grave - on his birthday

Ian Curson says he didn't know his girlfriend Caragh Eaton had fallen to the ground and fatally fractured her skull as he drove away, after an altercation in which she tried to stop him leaving

Prisoner Alan Lawrence told the judge who sentenced him for the jail attack he hoped one day he might see him in the pub, before the judge replied he'd keep his back to the bar

Tom Binns, who performs as hospital radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury and appeared on Channel 4’s 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, has been spared jail after being found with more than 35,000 indecent images of children

A US airman Dennis Rocha was sentenced to six years and eight months in a UK prison for raping a 12-year-old girl with autism while he was stationed in the country in April

Seb Mitchell and a group of other teenagers had drunk vodka at a house party before heading to a 16-year-old's home in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, but an altercation there led to him being stabbed

A judge was forced to clear the public gallery during the ongoing murder trial after loud outbursts were heard telling Michael Hillier and Rachel Fulstow to 'rot in hell'

Bethany Cox, from Stockton-on-Tees, pleaded not guilty to two charges of "child destruction" and "procure own miscarriage by poison" at court and was given bail

Two teenage boys were found at the home of Gareth Bullock, Liverpool, by police with one hiding by the side of a bed and the other on a window ledge, a court heard

Michael Hillier and his girlfriend Rachel Fulstow both deny murder. Electrician Liam Smith was shot and had acid thrown over him as he lay dying in November last year

Katarzyna Bastek recalled how her hero son Jakub Szymanski, 15, tried to tackle her former partner Suleman Altaf after he crept into their home before he was stabbed to death

The family of Jamie Kelly, 41, have launched a campaign against violence after their son was left with 'half his head missing' when he was attacked by Daniel George Johnson on the street

Pamela Mattinson, of Bolton, Greater Manchester, admitted that she had been drinking vodka prior to the incident but, despite the "despicable crime", was spared jail

The shocking triple stabbing happened on October 6 last year, when one approached a pedestrian on Bishopsgate, snatched a phone and rode off, with his accomplice following behind

Woman-beating ex-soldier Jonathan Hunt used his then-girlfriend as a "punchbag" during a drunken attack before being jailed for a total of two years and 11 months

Alex Rodda, 15, was murdered by Matthew Mason who was sentenced to life behind bars after beating the schoolboy to death in a 'violent, repetitive assault with a blunt weapon'

The High Court has heard that the French defender, who has signed for Lorient since being found not guilty of sex offences, owes the tax man almost £800,000

Schoolgirl Nikki Allan was lured to a derelict building in Sunderland by David Boyd and left dead in the basement. A botched police investigation meant Boyd wasn't convicted for more than 30 years

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Matthew Smith was deputy headteacher at the prestigious Thomas's Preparatory School, in south London, until allegations emerged about a string of horrific sex crimes he committed whilst abroad