All news on the topic: Court case

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Cop who ran cadet scheme for 13 to 17-year-olds used it as 'grooming playground'
PC Adnan Ali of Greater Manchester Police is on trial at Liverpool Crown Court charged with sexually assaulting two girls and a boy while running the Trafford Cadet scheme
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Phillip Schofield's brother 'sexually abused teenage boy over three years'
Phillips Schofield's younger brother, Timothy, appeared at crown court today, to stand trial over sexual abuse charges
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Killer who stabbed man to death then pretended it wasn't him jailed for life
A jury took just one hour and 26 minutes to convict serial knife-crime offender Harley Robinson of murdering Jason Whincup – one of the shortest times ever seen at the court for such a serious case
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Murderer of teen buried in makeshift grave still at large as friend is jailed
Kieran Williams was stabbed more than 20 times and his body was dumped in a makeshift grave near the River Wear in Sunderland, but a judge says he believes the killer is still at large
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Dad sobs as he's spared jail after killing son, 12, crashing car into ditch
Ted Vine was killed when his dad Paul, 47, had been driving them both to a football match but lost control of his car on an uneven road surface before colliding with another vehicle
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Sperm donor fathers over 550 kids after being blacklisted by his own country
Jonathan Jacob Meijer is being charged after breaking a pledge to father no more than 25 children. He is reported to have fathered more than 550 children around the world
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Family of pensioner set on fire thank people for 'immense efforts' after attack
A family have said they 'hope no one has to go through what we are going through' in an emotional statement after a 70-year-old grandad was set on fire in the street
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'I was sexually abused by my uncle, I don't know what it would be like to be me'
Irene Fonseca, nee Jenkins, was subjected to years of sexual abuse at the hands of her uncle when she was a child growing up in the 1960s and 70s
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Paedophile police officer who groomed girl, 14, into having sex with him jailed
Disgraced PC Hussain Chehab was jailed for five years after grooming a teenager into having sex with him and searching for explicit images of kids as young as two whilst working at a school
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Mum killed by 'careless' DPD driver as coroner calls for better break time laws
Jennifer Davies, 69, was fatally knocked down as she crossed a roundabout in Brighton, East Sussex, with coroner Penelope Schofield writing to the Department for Transport
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Mum finds son lying dead in ditch using iPhone app after he didn't come home
Josh Ashworth's body was found in a ditch along the A52, just outside Grantham, Lincolnshire, by his mother Rachael who used the iPhone tracking app to track her son's last movements
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Deputy head 'had heart attack in school toilets after Ofsted downgraded rating'
An unnamed deputy head at an academy in the north of England is said to have turned a "terrible colour" soon after Ofsted inspectors left before having a heart attack in the toilets
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Disgraced Stephen Bear moved to isolation wing for vulnerable prisoners
Bear is currently serving 21 months behind bars and has been placed on the sex offenders register for sharing footage of him having sex with former partner Georgia without her permission
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Dad stabbed to death at pub birthday party because he was dating killer's ex
Timothy Simon has been found guilty of murder after killing Wayne Phillips at a birthday party at a pub, he didn't like Wayne Phillips as he was going out with his ex
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Daughter of woman who died after being set alight calls for murder trial
Ellen Marshall, 43, suffered burns over up to 90 per cent of the top half of her body from the horrific attack in April 2021
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s lookalike kids Apple and son Moses due to testify in ski case
Gwyneth Paltrow is currently involved in a court case where she is accused of crashing into a man while skiing, something she denies
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'Cruel' mum failed to help baby who was 'clearly not well' days before he died
Kayleigh Clarke and her partner Michael Higginson only raised the alarm when it was too late. Paramedics found seven-week-old Ronnie in cardiac arrest and he died in hospital shortly after
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Gwyneth Paltrow says she feels ‘very sorry’ for man injured in ski collision
Gwyneth Paltrow is being sued by retired optometrist Mr Sanderson over a collision at the Deer Valley resort in Utah in 2016
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Brit ISIS terrorist 'absolutely committed to Jihadi' walks free from prison
Shazib Khan was jailed in 2016, aged 23, and was described by a judge as "absolutely committed to the Jihadi creed" after planning to travel to Syria to join ISIS
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Gwyneth Paltrow 'thought it was joke' when she collided with 'grunting' skier
Gwyneth Paltrow has testified on the fourth day of a case in which retired optometrist Terry Sanderson is suing the star following a ski incident in 2016
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Stephen Lawrence suspect earns £3,000-a-month as a courier after prison release
Jamie Acourt, 46, appeared at the City of London Magistrates' Court today over his failure to pay back £90,000 he made from a £3million drugs plot
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Man accused of murdering girl, 9, is innocent, claims alibi witness
Nicky McHale, 32, told a jury at Manchester Crown Court he saw Thomas Cashman, 34, smoking cannabis in the garden of a house in Liverpool around the time he is alleged to have shot Olivia Pratt-Korbel
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Two men cleared of acting as 'spotters' in robbery of Amir Khan for £70k watch
A jury of five women and seven men cleared Mohamed, 24, and Nurul Amin, 25 - both of North London - of conspiracy to rob Amir Khan after deliberating for two hours
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Prison officer, 27, faces jail over inappropriate relationship with inmate
A prison officer who worked at HMP Forest Bank in Salford was today told she could be jailed after admitting to having an inappropriate relationship with an inmate. Joanne Hunter, 27, pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office
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Burglar caught by Alexa announcing his break-in jailed
The homeowner was watching TV, with his nine-year-old daughter, when the device sprang into life to notify him that someone was at their house