All news on the topic: Crown court

Kayleigh Smee, 33, threw her partner's eight-year-old dog Prince out the window of a third storey flat in Rochester, Kent, causing it to break its neck, a court heard

Dennis Akpomedaye tried to behead his ex-girlfriend Anna Jedrkowiak in an alleyway after she broke up with him - police say he has never shown any remorse for the murder

Jacob Crimi-Appleby has pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Marius Gustavson, who is alleged to have led a wide-ranging conspiracy involving extreme body modifications

Maison Eldarat, from Birmingham, had been in a feud with her neighbour for a while and the conflict resulted in her attacking the woman leaving her and one other neighbour with facial injuries

The parents - who cannot be named for legal reasons - were visited by a social worker three times in a month with faeces found smeared on the walls, while none of the kids were potty trained

Jody Oliver, from Newport, lied that he was captain of a luxury cruise liner so as to con holidaymakers out of £272,000 but a court heard he had only £350 left to pay back to his victims

Two teenagers have been found guilty of the heartless slaughter of 16-year-old Ronan Kanda, who was killed in a horrifying case of mistaken identity after he went to buy a PlayStation controller

Daniel Green, 29, who has a long list of previous offences, reached speeds of 50mph with four punctured tyres as he tried to escape police over many miles in south Wales, a court heard

Steve Gibson and David Crampton were at court in 1993 to see Beverley Allitt sentenced. The two fathers said the Angel of Death nurse should never be released from prison

Michael Legros was returning from a holiday in Bali with his partner Heidi Mullis and their young children when he was stopped by Border Force officers at Manchester Airport

Paul Bell started a fire that left an old bingo hall he owned "completely destroyed", and the man who was renting the building was susbequently £10,000 out of pocket

Yagmur Ozden died after Rida Kazem, 24, lost control of his £180,000 Range Rover, catapulting her onto tube tracks. Her family has now spoken out saying they are furious at his short sentence

Gangland rivals Michael 'Cazza' Carroll and Stephen Britton are understood to lead two underworld groups in Greater Manchester - but allegedly met up in Dubai for a 'straightener'

Billee Hopkinson, who took on work when he knew his business was folding, pocketed money from a disability grant for a job near Leyland, Lancashire and failed to complete the task

The comedian had been travelling at 36mph in a 30mph zone in his Mercedes in March last year on Maybray King Way in Southampton - he was a 12-month driving ban, three penalty points and a £333 fine

Matthew and Luke Roe, both from Nottinghamshire, took Henry Thwaites out of his car and beat him to death, an attack which caused severe injury to the pensioner's skull

Allan Scott met Patricia Holland, 83, while he was selling paintings on the street in Norfolk - she gave him a place to stay but he killed her when she asked him to leave

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: After returning to his parents' care, 10-month-old Finley Boden was subjected to a "savage and brutal" campaign of abuse that left him with 130 separate injuries at the time of his death

Carl Silcox murdered Adell Cowan at his home in Caerphilly, Wales before leaving the flat and calling the police from a phone box to say "I just woke up and my missus is dead"

Jack Addis and Jeremy Laxton pleaded guilty to conspiring with serving Chief Inspector Richard Watkinson to distribute or show indecent images of children

Jonas Ilgunas, who described himself as 10 out of 10 drunk when he attacked his partner at their home in front of their three-year-old child, has been jailed for 14 months

Ellie Jacobs, 19, from Biddlesden, Buckinghamshire, was jailed for five years after admitting the manslaughter and child cruelty following the death of five-week-old Archie

Shannon Canning, 24, was reported missing from Lancaster on Friday morning and a major search was launched - a body was sadly found today and police believe it is the body of Shannon.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct's statement is related to Operation Midland, which looked into false allegations of sex abuse involving senior politicians and high-profile figures

Eddo Aziz and Kelsey Harrison, from Nuneaton, have been jailed after leaving their one-year-old daughter Elaina Rose in the bath unsupervised where she became "seriously unwell" and later died