All news on the topic: Crown court

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TikTok star 'murdered mum's lover in ambush when he threatened to expose affair'
TikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari, 23 - known as Maya - is among eight defendants accused of murdering her mum's young lover after he threatened to expose their affair
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Moment cops arrest vigilante dad for stabbing thief as he protests 'oh, come on'
Murderer David King, 56, is seen being arrested outside his home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, following the death of suspected car thief Neil Charles in a 'vigilante' attack
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Mother of Mendy's secret love child lifts lid on Man City footballer's payments
Benjamin Mendy has a three-year-old daughter living in Badalonia, and has been sending the mother payments - with calls for him to start a meaningful relationship with his child
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Speeding driver caused death of pals in horror crash after ignoring signs
Kyle Khan, 26, and Meesha Afzal, 22 died instantly when the car they were in, driven by Eidnun Liaquat, now 28, ploughed into a wall in Solihull
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Just Stop Oil protesters who blocked Dartford Crossing for 17 hours jailed
Morgan Trowland, 40, and 34-year-old Marcus Decker used ropes and other climbing equipment to scale the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, which links the M25 in Essex to Kent
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Man admits killing mum and her two children, 1 and 3, in flat fire
Fatoumatta Hydara, 28, Naeemah, one, and Fatimah Drammeh, three, died in the blaze at the first-floor flat in Nottingham last year as Jamie Barrow pleaded guilty to manslaughter
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Kevin Spacey appears in court via video link for twelve sexual offence charges
Oscar winning actor Kevin Spacey, who has been accused of twelve sexual offences, appeared in court on Friday
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Evil Thomas Cashman appeals to have 42-year jail term for murdering Olivia cut
Thomas Cashman refused to go into the dock to hear his sentence for shooting nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel as he chased a drug dealer into her home in Liverpool last August
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Man accused of murder of girl, 7, says 'DNA found on her clothes after spitting'
David Thomas Boyd, 55, is accused of the murder of seven-year-old Nikki Allan, whose body was found in a derelict building near to her home in Sunderland in 1992
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Girl, 7, stabbed 37 times in abandoned warehouse 'skipped to her death'
Nikki Allan, seven, was found dead in a derelict building near her home in Sunderland in 1992, with modern scientific testing having found the DNA of David Thomas Boyd on her clothes, a court heard
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Gran killed in horror smash after delivery driver took amphetamine to stay awake
Suzanne Taylor was a passenger in the back seat of the vehicle, which was at a stand-still with the hazards on. The 71-year-old suffered fatal injuries and tragically died at the scene, on the M6 near Sandbach in Cheshire
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Driver 'turned car into weapon' after he 'mounted footpath outside takeaway'
Rebecca Steer, 22, was dragged under Stephen McHugh's Volvo moments after he mounted the kerb and drove through a group of people, jurors in his murder trial have been told
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Thug buries axe in drinker's head and leaves him disabled in 'banter' row at pub
David Perry, 40, from from Wickhambrook, Suffolk, picked an argument with a group of friends having a quiet drink in the Bell Hotel in Clare last year - he has been jailed for 24 years
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Heartbroken mum comes face to face with man accused of murdering little girl
Nikki Allan was found dead in a derelict building near her home in Sunderland in October 1992 after going missing when she left her grandfather's home
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Dad, 60, hacked into 772 webcams across the world to watch 47 women have sex
Dad-of-three Christopher Taylor, 60, used a scam link to trick 772 people in 39 countries to give him access to their webcams so he could spy on their private lives
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Drunken lout who caused chaos on packed TUI flight is jailed
Wesley Haining, from Salford, was one of almost 300 passengers on a TUI flight from Montego Bay in Jamaica
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Dad and son killed ex's new lover 'like animals' after dragging him out wardrobe
Matthew Rodwell had hid in his young's son's wardrobe as his partner's ex and son arrived at the house they shared in Downham Market, Norfolk. He called 999 fearful of what was about to happen
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Nurse Lucy Letby weeps in dock as photos of her bedroom shown in court
Lucy Letby, who is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others between June 2015 and June 2016, wiped away tears as photographs of her bedroom appeared on screen in court
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Mum and daughter burned to death when van driver on TikTok crashed into car
Luke Flanagan, 28, hit 55-year-old Emma van der Avoird's Peugeot 2008 as she was taking her daughter Khiana, 16, to school at about 8am on November 1 2021, before it burst into flames
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Boy, 14, who yelled 'I'm going to wet you' guilty of murdering fellow teen
Tomasz Oleszak, 14, collapsed after being stabbed in a nature park in Gateshead last October - with his attacker Leighton Amies denying murder before being found guilty at Newcastle Crown Court
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Cowboy builders film themselves boasting about ripping off 82-year-old victim
Three cowboy builders have been jailed after making £45,000 from crimes committed in 18 properties across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Bristol between October 2020 and March 2021.
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Drunk driver ploughs car into hedge after running over two elderly pedestrians
Sarah Reese, 59, injured two bystanders when she got behind the wheel after drinking. She then drove downhill losing control of the car, mounting the curb and careering into a hedge
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Mum who called cops after son stabbed teen to death 'would do the same again'
Joshua Delbono's mother Donna rang the police after discovering he had brutally stabbed 16-year-old Charley Bates to death following an altercation in a pub car park
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Tax cheat convicted for £97million fraud bought historic house worth £4million
Prosecutors want to confiscate the property in Hampstead, London, after Arif Patel's conviction on Tuesday for a £97million fraud. The 55-year-old and his gang imported and sold knock-off designer gear
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Nightclub pair kidnapped women and one went for McDonald's after raping victim
When Badr Alhadidi and Dhari Alshammari were confronted with CCTV of the women being dragged on the pavement and forced into a property - they laughed and claimed the women were sober and consenting