All news on the topic: Court case

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Priory Healthcare fined £650k over avoidable harm to mental health patient
Personal trainer Matthew Caseby, 23, was able to leave Birmingham's Priory Hospital Woodbourne after being "inappropriately unattended" for several minutes before his death
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Obsessed Heathrow worked who stabbed ex to death after spying on her jailed
Sheldon Rodrigues, 30, became angry and jealous after 39-year-old Stephanie Hansen rejected him and began seeing a married work colleague. He has been jailed for life, with a minimum term of 25 years
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Special constable sexually abused boy, 14, he plied with alcohol and drugs
Craig Baker, 32, has been jailed for 10 years for grooming a 14-year-old boy, he befriended at a Hemel Hempstead sports centre where he was manager, and sexually abusing him
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Man threw 'Molotov cocktail' through sex offender's window and set fire to flat
Simon Boothby, who strongly objected to the sex offender living anywhere near him and so set fire to the man's flat in the Bransholme area of Hull, has been jailed
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Grandparents accused of murdering two-year-old grandson found inside their home
Michael and Kerry Ives, 46 and 45, are accused of the murder of grandson Ethan Ives Griffiths, two, and his mum Shannon Kayleigh Ives is charged with assault and neglect
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Met Police cop sacked after telling woman his 'white supremacist rape fantasy'
PC David Seager has been dismissed from the Met Police after sharing a white supremacist rape fantasy, as well as other offences including telling a man he would be raped in jail
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Sick thug who encouraged dogs to maul fox to death is jailed
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Dane Crawford, 30, has been jailed for encouraging his pet lurchers, Major and Lassie, to kill a fox in a horrifying attack
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Mum Constance Marten takes the stand in court accused of killing her own baby
Constance Marten and partner Mark Gordon are on trial at the Old Bailey charged with the manslaughter of their baby Victoria who was found dead in a Lidl carrier bag
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Furious homeowner left '£20,000 out of pocket after a botched garden makeover'
Andrew Donnelly, 51, hired a firm for a garden makeover but says he was left with tilted fencing, cracked paving, and lights that caused electricity surges in his home
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City restaurant fined £7,600 after fly-tipping leads to horror rat-infestation
Million's Lounge and Restaurant, in Chadwell Heath, was already known to Redbridge Council for its waste mismanagement, and had a history of community complaints over this
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Shay Kang's mum 'pictured' in court charged with murder of 10-year-old daughter
Jaskirat Kaur appeared in court charged with the murder of her 10-year-old daughter Shay King. A police cordon remains in place at the house in Rowley Regis where the schoolgirl was found
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Emma Caldwell killer to appeal after being jailed for life over 2005 murder
Iain Packer, 51, has been convicted of killing Emma Caldwell, 27, in Lanarkshire in 2005. The sex worker's death had been one of Scotland's most high-profile unsolved murders
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Constance Marten and boyfriend 'should not have lived in tent with newborn baby'
Aristocrat Constance Marten and her boyfriend Mark Gordon, 49, should not have lived in a tent with their newborn baby daughter before the child died, a trial has heard
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Man charged for 'headbutt' on Roy Keane and date set for court appearance
A man has been charged with common assault following an alleged headbutt on former Manchester United captain Roy Keane during the Red Devils' defeat at Arsenal in September
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Drunk mum's 'aggressive' outburst at Jet2 cabin crew on flight home from Turkey
Lauren Beaumont-Capps and another passenger 'started causing commotion' and 'shouted' at cabin crew on a Jet2 plane which landed 30 minutes late, Manchester Magistrates' Court heard
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Dognapping killer who left victim decomposing inside duvet jailed for 19 years
Killer Ian Connell, 39, who murdered 45-year-old Donald Patience before leaving his decomposing body wrapped in a duvet and taking his beloved dog has been jailed
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Man unable to use arm after near-fatal snowmobile crash with military helicopter
Jeff Smith nearly lost his life, has been left without the use of his arm, and is unable to work after he crashed his snowmobile into the tail of a Black Hawk helicopter in 2019
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Mum's fury after daughters given £50 each from late grandad's £500,000 fortune
Frederick Ward Snr died in 2020 aged 91 and left his granddaughters £50 each from his £500,000 fortune, sparking a bitter family row which would have left his son "turning in his grave"
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Lover lured boyfriend into honeytrap after family paid £3k to have him murdered
Emma Giles and her family hatched a twisted murder plot to kill her ex-boyfriend - but he narrowly escaped death after he was stabbed in the chest outside his home
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Woman, 55, found dead in home named by police as man charged with murder
Attempts to save 55-year-old Christine Bauld, who was found seriously injured at her home, failed. Gregor Bauld, 22, has appeared in court charged with her murder
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'Good egg' football manager dies after being 'attacked' in pub car park
Scott Hendy was taken to Southmead Hospital where he later died after he was seriously injured in a Pilning, near Bristol, pub car park as tributes have poured in for the football manager
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New details over Sam Kerr taxi incident which led to racial harassment charge
Sam Kerr has pleaded not guilty to the alleged racial harrassment of a police officer following a complaint over a taxi fare in January of last year, with the Chelsea star facing a four-day trial in early 2025
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Woman smashed bottle over taxi driver's head in Christmas Day argument
Millie Crockett struck a taxi driver over the head with a bottle during an argument where her then boyfriend Kieron Marston also punched him in the drunken attack on Christmas Day
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Mum plunged knife into woman's throat in attack leaving her fed through tube
Savanna Hawkes, 27, stabbed her victim in the middle of a street in Stockton, County Durham after an argument, later pleading guilty to wounding with intent and to the possession of a bladed article