All news on the topic: Crown court

Brianna Ghey was stabbed to death by Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe in a Warrington park last year – today the two teenager killers can be named for the first time as they're sentenced for murder

Retired cop Alan Claxton, 74, caused his wife Wendy, 70, to hurtle down the stairs with such 'massive force' she suffered catastrophic injuries usually associated with a car accident

A 44-year-old man accused of stabbing to death two teenage boys – 15-year-old Mason Rist and 16-year-old Max Dixon – in Bristol on Saturday has been charged with murder

Darren Melling left his victim seeking safety in a pharmacy after attacking her relentlessly for 30 minutes. In an another attack the judge said he had risked leaving her paralysed

Thug Humphrey Burke, 30, was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order for kicking prison van attendant Lorraine Barwell to death - but is now roaming free just 24 months later

The victim, Matthew Davies, sustained horrific injuries including damage to his spine, lung, ribs, arm, shoulder, wrist, pelvis, liver and kidney. His thigh had become separated from his pelvis and he woke up in intensive care weeks later

Gareth Rogers, 77, a former teacher at Caerleon Comprehensive School in Newport is accused of raping a schoolboy in a classroom and indecently assaulting another in the 1970s, a court heard

Marc Large, 49, mowed down and killed Terence Abson, 62, and Georgina Lands, 56, while driving his Mercedes Sprinter van through Carlisle and claiming to be on a hands-free call

Andrew Ridley attacked fellow concert-goer Mark Stevens at the Monster Truck show in Birmingham because he could not see the band due to the shine coming off his head

Vigilantes wrongly picked out their suspect during an operation at Asda to hunt out a man who had been messaging teenage girls in a sexualised way

Nottingham Crown Court, heard that Colin Wilson, 45, had lost control of his two dogs twice in recent months - with a judge disqualifying him from owning a dog for four years

Jake Hill, 25, allegedly went on a 'knife rampage' stabbing six people and leaving one dead outside the Eclipse nightclub in Bodmin, Cornwall, with a serrated hunting knife, a court heard

Alan Claxton is accused of causing his wife Wendy to topple down the stairs with a 'massive force'. She had told police she had recently inherited a considerable amount of money

Michael Whitty, from Merseyside, has been jailed after being caught by Manchester Airport sniffer dogs trying to fly to Dubai with Kinder Surprise eggs containing drugs hidden up his bottom

Jessica Chance, 37, was set to board a flight to Rhodes from Manchester Airport after downing several vodkas when other passengers complained, with the police arriving shortly after

A man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after breaking into a popular 86-year-old churchwarden's home and beating her to death in an attack that has sickened the local community

Mitchell Newns, 32, had claimed to his ex that his mother had died - but his lies were discovered when his mum wrote to her, a trial at Preston Crown Court heard

Wendy Douglas was left with a fractured eye socket, broken collar bone and broken ribs when she was attacked by Brian Saunders at her home in a dispute over a fence and an ivy bush

On June 13, last year, Valdo Calocane hid in the shadows before attacking Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, as they walked home from a night out before stabbing school caretaker Ian Coates to death as well

Dylan Bragger was killed in Skelmersdale, Lancashire by Felipe Figueiredo who savagely knifed the 15-year-old to death on a bridge above a motorway before chasing his cousin

David Braun - who sexually assaulted a woman at a hotel in Coleford, the Forest of Dean while she slept - has been sentenced at Gloucester Crown Court to three and a half years

When Patrycja Miszczuk’s mum, Anna Miszczuk, was diagnosed with incurable stage four cancer back in 2019 she would have taken relief that an insurance payout would at least see her children helped out after she'd died - but her partner splashed all the money

James Brown, 31, tried to strangle his housemate with a belt and suffocate him with a pillow, as the victim begged him to stop. The attacker then called 999 and was arrested

Sean Stanway ran his own building and maintenance company from 2001, but was declared bankrupt in August 2020. He has now been jailed at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court

In victim personal statements read to the court, one officer described it as the "worst incident" he'd had to deal with - after a drink driver verbally abused, kicked and smeared blood in a police van