All news on the topic: Crown court

The dog owner cried out "please no, he’s my son" before kicking a rubbish bin down the hall as she left the courtroom after the dog was ordered to be put down

Former Metropolitan Police officer Cliff Mitchell, 24, threatened one of his victims with a knife, before tying her up with cable ties and putting tape over her mouth

Daniel Sebastian Allen admitted murdering a teenage girl, her baby daughter and brother and killing their mum, found handcuffed to a bed after a house fire in Derrylin, Co Fermanagh

Chelsea Orrock, of South Shields, lost her temper when the woman said she used to go out with her partner when they were at school, which ultimately led to the horror attack

DPD driver Aurman Singh, 23, died after being "chopped in the head" with an axe, battered with a golf club, and stabbed in the back with a knife on August 21 last year

Donald Patience, 45, was found dead under a duvet cover at the bottom of his stairs after police responded to reports of a labradoodle being stolen from his home in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester

Janice Wilding said she was "surprised" when she saw the shocking video capturing her actions, and blamed it on a laced drink. However, the 49-year-old provided no evidence and was handed hefty unpaid work for her actions

Ellie Baxter, 22, told Chelmsford Crown Court how her mum Carol Baxter, 64, had become reliant on Luke D'Wit, 34, and drank his "gross" herbal remedies to help with her ailing health conditions

Double rapist Wayne Campbell, 42, was jailed in 2015 for rape and ABH after he violently assaulted a Good Samaritan who took pity on him and invited him into her home in Ashford, Kent

Joseph Morley used the handle "Indelible Osprey" on the secret EncroChat platform - running drugs in the UK from his base in Spain. He's now been locked up

Emergency services including ambulances, police and Border Force were in attendance at the scene at Newhaven ferryport and six people were taken to hospital

Sarah, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, shared how she had engaged in repeated conversations with serial romance fraudster Cieran McNamara between 2019 and 2021.

"Wholly innocent" Elle, 26, was on a night out with her sister and friends when she was killed by a hail of bullets outside the Lighthouse pub, Wallasey, on Christmas Eve 2022

Leroy Robinson was locked up in a young offenders unit while he stood trial for the murder of Joseph Riches when he was stabbed while in detention

Austen West, 40, punched Stuart Lee after he told a barmaid in Thornton-Cleveleys to "go f*** yourself" when she said she was only 17 in response to Lee asking for her phone number

Zaara and Rafiq Jamadar were caught out by their own CCTV camera installed inside their home in Blackburn bagging up Spice in front of their small child - while ordering their other kid to deal

Josh Morgan flew into a rage after leaving a nightclub. A pedestrian who tried to stop his dangerous driving was hit and seriously injured attempting to grab the keys

Adam Andrews, 37, has been jailed for inflicting serious injuries on a baby - the child's mother said he should not be allowed to walk the streets

Shaun Wakefield threatened his wife and dog in addition to firing a weapon at police officers who were called to his flat in Wales. He also pushed his wife to the floor

Samad Ali stole more than 500 times from 40 stores in the West Midlands between October 2022 and April last year

A takeaway boss accused of being the mastermind of a gang who tried to rob a travel agent, and ended up gunning down rookie police officer Sharon Beshenivsky was described as a 'friend' of the business he robbed

Luke D'Wit, 34, worked for Stephen and Carol Baxter, and befriended the couple but a court heard that he poisoned them and watched them die on his phone - before allegedly rewriting their will to benefit him

Ambreen Fatima Sheikh remains in a vegetative state from which she'll likely never recover after her husband Asgar and his family gave her diabetes medication and abused her at a house in Huddersfield

Alleged con artist Luke D'Wit is accused of murdering Stephen and Carol Baxter at their home in West Mersea, Essex, after 'duping' them under a number of guises

Norman Kay, who held onto two million cigarettes for an organised crime group, has been jailed after attempting to tell police that they were for 'personal use'