All news on the topic: Court case

Sean Hogg, now 21, was found guilty of raping the 13-year-old girl at Dalkeith Country Park in Midlothian, Scotland - he carried out the offence when he was 17

Nikitta Byrne, 26, woke up in bed after a party in Penarth, Wales, to find her friend's pensioner dad Huw Thomas, 72, sexually assaulting her, having removed her clothing

Jonathan Ashton barged his way into the vulnerable victim's home in Sheffield on Christmas Day morning in 2020 before repeatedly punching him in an attack which left him hospitalised

Gerard McElhone, 50, died after choking at Mid Ulster Hospital, with the Northern Health and Social Care Trust fined £10,000 after it was heard he was supposed to be on a restricted diet at the time

Seven-year-old Nikki Allan was dragged by the ankles down the stairs of the old Exchange building in Sunderland on October 7, 1992, having been attacked on the first floor, suffering multiple knife wounds, a court heard

Lee McConnell fell out with pensioner Wendie Bryant after she erected a metal post to stop him parking his VW campervan in her space - then had sex with his wife Dani outside her home

Lucy Letby, 33, is alleged to have murdered seven babies and attempted to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neo-natal unit between June 2015 and June 2016

A key witness in the Olivia Pratt-Korbel murder case felt compelled to come forward after learning that Thomas Cashman, with whom she was having an affair, had killed the nine-year-old

Francisco Fernandez was hit with an £800 fine after he was caught using his mother-in-law's blue badge to park... months after she had died - claiming he didn't know it was a criminal offense

The offender - a man in his 30s - was given lifelong anonymity by a judge before being jailed for 16 months in Northern Ireland after being caught in a Yorkshire and Humberside Police sting

The dog owner was hauled to court over the dog mess leaving neighbours happy with the result after they were "fed up with the smell and having to look at it all the time"

Olivier Yolo, 27, of Monsall, Greater Manchester, is facing prison after agreeing to fraudulently take learner drivers' theory tests for cash at a series of DVSA centres

Lewis Jones, 24, of Brocklebank Lane, Allerton, abducted and violently attacked the girl while she was playing in a field with her cousin's near a family member's home

Phillip Dafter was found guilty of murdering his wife Diana - a 36-year-old student nurse and 'loving mother' after previously only admitting to manslaughter

Sean Foster was jailed for three years after he pleaded guilty to the theft of a bank card and hair straighteners, and also the burglary of a home - where he left his medication box

Security guard Sabeur Trabelsi is accused of the manslaughter of homeless man Jason Page. He told the court he thought he was about to get stabbed when he punched him

Mum Sharon Henderson, 56, broke down in tears as a murder trial heard how her seven-year-old daughter was found in a blood-covered basement of an abandoned building

Columnist E Jean Carroll, 79, has sued former president Donald trump for allegeldy sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store in 1996 - a case the businessman has called a "scam"

Two men told their victim withdraw £50, before abandoning him. One of the thugs then told his victim: "You're lucky you work for a living. I'm 21 and I have to do this," a court heard

Boxer Joe Calzaghe's ex-girlfriend Jo-Emma Larvin, 44, is facing jail over her role in a £104million cash smuggling operation after moving £5million in luggage when flying to Dubai

TRIGGER WARNING - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: During one sickening incident, the 30-year-old grabbed the woman as she tried to leave, before pulling her to the floor by her hair and raining punches down on her

Amber Heard has appeared alongside Jason Momoa in a trailer for Aquaman 2, despite there being a petition to have her sacked from the role after her court case last year

Patrick Ivory became angry because he thought that his pal had not returned the bank card to him, and then suddenly viciously bit him using his teeth as a "dangerous weapon" during a "petty" argument

Sean Edwards, 35, assaulted Ishaq Hassan in Popworld in Cardiff city centre on May 7 last year, by punching the face with "powerful force" four or five times, causing him great pain

Sean Harding was found in the loft of his partner's home after he absconded from a Category D prison in Lancashire on December 22 last year, and he managed to evade police for about five weeks before he was caught