All news on the topic: Crown court

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Pedestrian jailed for cyclist pavement row death is ‘devastated' and will appeal
Auriol Grey, 49, was found guilty of causing a an elderly cyclist to fall off her bike and into the path of a car and after being jailed a source reportedly said she is "devastated"
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MMA fan used girlfriend as punchbag in 80month relationship before murdering her
A three-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard how Kevin Mannion murdered his girlfriend Elinor O'Brien after violently assaulting her several times throughout their eight-month relationship
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Woman fled to domestic violence refuge and was sexually assaulted by male staff
A 21-year-old woman fled to Shropshire Domestic Violence, away from an abusive partner, but was met handyman Stephen Russell there who went on to blackmail her
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Killer dad text daughter 'stop screaming' on night she died covered in maggots
Schoolgirl Kaylea Titford, 16, was found dead sitting up in her 'severely soiled' bed surrounded by flies and maggots after becoming morbidly obese.
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Husband sick in dock as wife is jailed for biting landlady's ear off in attack
Gemma Rowlands, 25, was jailed for 14 months for biting off pub landlady Michelle Thomas' ear in a drunken brawl in 2019, as her husband Darren More retched in the dock
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Killer parents who left daughter to die in squalor 'unfit for animal' jailed
The parents of Kaylea Titford, 16, who weighed 22st 13lbs when she was found dead in her bedroom described as "unfit for any animal" have been sentenced at crown court this afternoon
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Prison guard given £10,000 by robber to send him hundreds of explicit pictures
Rachel Martin had an 'intimate' relationship with criminal Raymond Abraham at HMP Guys Marsh and received 'at least' £10,000 from him as she sent him explicit pics and women's underwear
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Woman scammed her grandad out of £75,000 after inventing fake B&Q legal battle
Olivia Crutchley, 23, conned Roy Crutchley, 79, by creating fake emails to look like they were from solicitors and the Citizens Advice Bureau to make it appear she had been left out of pocket by her former employer B&Q - despite never working for them.
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Killer stepmum filmed dying toddler on the floor instead of calling 999
Three-year-old Harvey Borrington died Nottingham's Queen's Medical from unsurvivable brain damage - his stepmum Leila Borrington denied ever hitting him but medical experts concluded that his injuries were caused by repeated blows
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Nurse Lucy Letby 'tried to murder baby within two hours of her birth'
The 33-year-old nurse is alleged to have deliberately dislodged the youngster’s breathing tube just moments before a consultant walked into the nursery room
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Man accused of murdering wife and daughter, 12, to defend himself at trial
Peter Nash is accused of the murders of Jillu Nash, 43, and their daughter Louise at their home in Heath Estate, Great Waldingfield, Sudbury, Suffolk, between September 7 and 9 last year
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'Despicable' case as woman in Scotland tricks mum out of nearly £50,000
Margaret managed to steal £50,000 from her own elderly mum after she was put in charge of her financial affairs, being given power of attorney in 2014
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Serial killer-obsessed murderer was obsessed with doll 'Chucky' during childhood
Shaye Groves stabbed her on-off boyfriend Frankie Fitzgerald to death as he slept and was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life behind bars
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Tory violence failures means rape is decriminalised, Labour frontbencher says
Shadow justice minister Ellie Reeves said a Labour government would bring in specialist rape courts, tougher sentencing for rapists and a domestic violence register
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Labour slams Tory justice chaos with record 17,000 victims waiting for trials
Labour's figures found that last year 12,460 cases had not come to trial for between one and two years, and 4,893 for more than two years
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Migrant stabs student in random attack 'so he can be deported back to homeland'
Rebaz Mohammed, who entered Britain illegally, was jailed for six years after stabbing a university student in an attempt to be sent home to Iraq.
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Mum wakes up screaming at night after horror of seeing son's beaten body
In a victim impact statement Liverpool Crown Court heard how Michael Toohey’s mum begged for paramedics to save her son as he lay lifeless on the floor
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Mum who downed three bottles of wine a day tortured husband for 20 years
Sheree Spencer spat at and punched her husband, grabbing his hair, slapping him, kicking and biting him and threatened to take his head off, rip his heart out and break his teeth
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Dealer for 'highly-sophisticated' cocaine gang caught by cops playing Pokemon Go
Police arrested Raymond Phipps with £13,350 cash in a Morrison's carrier bag. He spent his days playing Pokemon Go as detectives watched
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HGV driver distracted by Facebook vid kills three before trying to destroy phone
Michal Kopaniarz destroyed his Samsung mobile phone after the watching a video that flashed up on Facebook as she drove the HGV into bride-to-be Alex Britton and two other motorists
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Nan told murder-accused son 'you're a divvy' after he stabbed her in heart
Jamie Dempsey is standing trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of murdering his mother Karen, having knifed her in the chest while fighting with another man over a £2,000 drug debt
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Two men jailed over death of 'sweet' boy, 8, killed while crossing the road
The men believed to have been 'racing' in the street have been handed prison sentences after an eight-year-old boy tragically died when he was hit by a car while crossing the road
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Hapless burglar accepted brews from victims then left his DNA at crime scene
Christopher McKillop, fresh out of prison, targeted vulnerable OAPs in a cruel campaign of burglary and fraud, spinning elaborate lies to get access to their homes before stealing cash and bank cards
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Upskirting pervert banned from every McDonald's toilet in the UK is jailed
Pervert upskirter Asere Shumba was sent behind bars for failing to stay away from McDonald's toilets after being given a chance by the courts last year
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Gangster's ex-wife exposed for his torture killing in seance is jailed 13 years
Former Matalan store assistant Colleen Campbell, 38, was branded a "f..king witch" by relatives of the victim after her meeting with a psychic inadvertntly implicated her in the murder of her former spouse Thomas