All news on the topic: Court case

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Moment disqualified driver rams cop car before 135mph car chase armed with gun
Kane McLeod, 32, was spotted by a police patrol speeding on the M25 near the Darenth Interchange in Dartford, Kent, on the evening of April 10, 2021
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Private school teacher accused of sex with young pupil says 'God forgive me'
Fiona Carrier is accused of having sex with a schoolboy from Blue Coats School in Reading in the 1990s when she was a piano teacher, but denies several counts of indecent assault
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Chilling moment prisoner attacks guard after stalking him through jail
Kevin Jones was seen on CCTV trying to stalk the victim around the Blackthorn Unit at HMP Bullingdon before pulling a sharpened plastic knife out of his pocket
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One-legged crime boss on the run for five years extradited to UK and jailed
Richard Wakeling, 55, was arrested at a garage in Thailand and is now serving an 11-year sentence in the UK for masterminding an £8million drug deal
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Grandad's heroin-smuggling gang partied in Las Vegas while claiming benefits
Stanley Feerick was jailed this week after his drug-trafficking gang visited Las Vegas, while claiming benefits and transporting drugs across the country
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TikTok clown Mizzy's mum 'sick of his stupid pranks' and wants him to get job
Bacari-Bronze O'Garro, known as "Mizzy" on his social media, has appeared in court numerous times for his cruel ‘pranks’ on unsuspecting members of the public
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XL Bully dog owner ignored neighbours screams as she was 'scarred for life'
Suraya Highton-Lawal callously walked away as the victim shouted to call an ambulance after the dog mauled her
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Depraved husband and wife sexually abused children in campaign lasting 20 years
Bedfordshire Police branded Martin Bayes and his wife Dianne "despicable offenders" after they were found guilty of numerous charges following a trial at Luton Crown Court
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Members of Britain's 'worst-ever' child sex abuse gang are jailed for 190 years
Seven victims aged under 13 were abused over almost a decade in the Walsall and Wolverhampton areas in what a judge said was a "prolonged and sustained" campaign that left children "terribly psychologically damaged"
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Shoplifter steals 144 chocolate bars in front of CCTV then goes back for coffee
Jordan Thomson was fresh out of jail when he stole 144 bars of chocolate from a Co-Op just to return shortly after and steal ten jars of coffee - landing himself back behind bars
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Enraged man dumps 44lb bucket of excrement over police station counter
Claudio Sesia poured 44lbs of a foul mixture of cow excrement and water onto a police station front desk as he was warned "don't you dare" by a bemused administrator in Australia's Queensland state
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Therapist loses eviction battle after taking over home with 50 animals
Patricia Ramshaw continues to be locked in a row with the wealthy Cator family over the rental of the Old House in Ranworth, Norfolk. The bizarre dispute began in November 2021
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'I'm traumatised after my Airbnb host threw me out and said I was a sex worker'
Lyndsey McCabe, 46, slapped Jane Dillon, damaged her suitcase and even smashed up her car windscreen after wrongly convincing herself the actress and model would sell sexual services from the room
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Driver fled crash scene and left dying girlfriend in wreckage before blaming pal
Nathan Towers, who was driving a car despite never passing a driving test, crashed his car in Epping, Essex, and fled the scene to avoid being arrested, leaving his seriously injured girlfriend to die
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Jeremy Vine's jailed stalker banned from contacting two more people
Former BBC local radio DJ Alex Belfield has been hit with a stalking protection order following being jailed over four stalking charges against broadcasters, including Jeremy Vine
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Man who murdered own sister is dad of killer who stabbed teen outside school
Roger Harriott murdered his own sister on a Huddersfield street just a week after his teenage son was handed a life sentence for the murder of schoolboy Khayri Mclean
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Mum killed boyfriend's chihuahua by hurling it 30ft out of third-floor window
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
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Woman found sleeping in car in the road after boozing with pal amid break-up
Aisling Slater was hauled before Wigan Magistrates' Court after a security guard found her slumped over the wheel on a road in Wigan three times over the drink driving limit
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'I'm buying house where my girlfriend was murdered so I can raze it to ground'
Leon Grant, 49, is in talks with the owners of a house in Aberdeen, Scotland, where his wife Jill was raped and murdered with plans to knock it down as he deals with PTSD
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Mum avoids jail after dragging neighbour to ground by hair as she put bins out
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
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EasyJet passenger 'too drunk to put his seatbelt on' wakes up in police cell
Stephen Bartle, 36, from Cornwall, woke up in a police cell in Bristol thinking he had been on holiday to Amsterdam -he pleaded guilty to being drunk on an aircraft
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Mum told social worker 'take them' after kids found in faeces-smeared house
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
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Scary texts shows gang bragging about importing £1m of drugs into seaside town
This gang of drug dealers brought £1 million of cocaine and cannabis into the country and then boasted about the act in chilling text messages, which were read in court
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Fake ship captain who conned holidaymakers out of £272k must pay back just £350
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
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Cowboy builder destroyed couple's dream home then started threatening them
Brett Grundy promised newlyweds Brian Hall and his wife Carolyn he would renovate their home and transform it into the dreamy property they had dreamed of - but he never did