All news on the topic: Crown court

Courtney Boorne was strangled by Liam Cain in the flat they shared in Merseyside not long after she warned her mum to 'call the police if you don't hear from me within the hour'

Marcus Maddison, who began his career at Newcastle United, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm and will be sentenced next month

Mihiai Hurmuz-Irimia, 29, is accused of murdering his wife Katie at their Oxfordshire home after stabbing her 171 times following an argument on their anniversary

The family of pregnant Hollyoaks actress Frankie Julia Hough, who died in a car crash on the M66, have branded the sentence given to a BMW driver as 'insulting'

West Midlands Police officer Anthony Ritchie and his ex-colleague Steven Walters had sexual relationships with a number of women, some of whom they met while responding to domestic abuse incidents, a court heard

Former sergeant Frank Partridge was happy to accept gifts including a £7,000 family holiday to Morocco and tickets for his mother-in-law to see heavy metal band Metallica in Milan for her birthday

BBC television director Hywel Williams has been cleared of killing grandfather Peter Ormerod after CCTV showed him placing his hands on the retired teacher during a row over Welsh independence

The former Manchester United star, Britain's most decorated footballer, will no longer stand trial on two counts of assault and a separate charge of controlling and coercive behaviour

The mum-of three was handed a 28-month extended sentence after she admitted illegally procuring her own abortion when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant - the Court of Appeal has now reduced her sentence

The footballer was set to face a second trial at Manchester Crown Court on July 31 but the case was abandoned at a pre-trial review this morning

Jorge Garay, 46, murdered mum-of-one Karla Godoy and buried her body in his grandmother's garden in Peru - with his trial a landmark for domestic abuse crime in Britain

George Redmond, 76, died after his house on Dorien Road in Old Swan, Merseyside, was set alight in the early hours of September 1 last year as a court heard the culprits got the wrong address

Sam Norman was caught by police who recognised him after looking into his victim's Ring camera showing his full face during the burglary at a house in Pinvin, Worcestershire

Family members of the pair wept as the details of the attack on Christopher Martin were read to the court as the 25 year old was jailed for life for killing his own grandfather

Sir Elton John and David Furnish has been called as a defence witness, giving evidence via a video link from Monaco in the trial of the actor Kevin Spacey at Southwark Crown Court in London

Amateur goalkeeper Joseph Regan, 22, stole £1,500 from a nurse and a teacher he met on dating apps after convincing them to open betting accounts with Bet265, a court heard

A 12-year-old girl was raped by a teenage boy and later fell pregnant with his child. As a result, she was left in need of surgery due to injuries sustained from giving birth, a court heard.

The victim was left scarred and refuses to have any mirrors in her home due to feeling 'sick' by her reflection as two women were jailed over the 'truly disturbing' incident

Actor Kevin Spacey has denied claims that he was a sexual bully, as well as claims he held a "power wand" in order to get somebody to sleep with him

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Sarah Jayne Barron was in "an extreme state of denial" having convinced herself she was not pregnant and was in a "blind panic" when she threw the baby off the balcony

The 28-year-old French footballer was acquitted by a jury of six men and six women at Chester Crown Court following a retrial

Daniel Cuthbert moved large sums of money, including his father’s entire redundancy pay-out, into his own account while his dad grieved for his late mother in a "despicable" fraud

Amy Paton and Nikki Pilkington both tricked the victim, who lives in Blyth, Northumberland, into handing over his savings with lies about how he would be at risk from drug dealers if he failed to do so

Claire Scanlon, 38, has been found guilty of murder after it was discovered her five-year-old had been poisoned with anti depressants - despite her claiming he had had died from a fall

Dad-of-three Frank Partridge said he was a functioning alcoholic while working as a licensing officer in London's West End, but he's been found guilty of being in a corrupt relationship