All news on the topic: Crown court

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XL Bully owner punched vet in the face after being told pet died during surgery
Arbas Hamaz Hamid left his XL Bully's surgeon needing stitches after he punched him in the face when he was told his dog had died having an operation at the vets in York
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Nightmare neighbour fired air rifle at man in garden and punched pregnant woman
Nightmare neighbour Izaak Bradbury fired at a man while he was gardening, before approaching him and punching him in the ear, causing it to bleed, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard
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Holly Willoughby 'at rock bottom' two months after This Morning exit
Fresh comments from her close friend Leigh Francis have sparked concern for This Morning star Holly Willoughby, after he said she 'isn't in a good place' two months on from leaving the ITV daytime show
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Moment killer pretends to cry as cops tell him mum he bullied for years is dead
Lewis Bush was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 16 years behind bars after brutally murdering his mother Kelly Pitt and leaving her body on her bed
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Twisted kidnappers stabbed dad 196 times and sent daughter video
Daryoush Kholghnik and Talib Mombeini abducted 53-year-old father Tala Tala outside his house in Leicester, took him to an Airbnb, where they carried out a sustained attack which ended with his death
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Killer bludgeoned neighbour to death with a hammer over 'spying' fears
Tarik Hussein, 28, who had undiagnosed schizophrenia, was convinced his neighbour, shop keeper Esmaeil Tofigh was watching him through the walls of his home in Longsight, Manchester
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Businessman snatched off Brocket Hall golf course in ‘£10m blackmail plot’
The man - in his 30s - was playing with three women on one of the two championship golf courses at Brocket Hall Golf Club close to Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire
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Thief who ran over and dragged courier as he stole his van convicted of murder
Mark Lang suffered fatal injuries as he was dragged hundreds of metres by his vehicle after trying to stop Christopher Elgifari from getting away with this stolen van in Cardiff
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Mum's surprise at total she falsely claimed in benefits when kids went into care
Mum Danielle Muirhead, 32, from Walton, Liverpool, scammed over £36,000 in Universal Credit, Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit after her two youngest children went into care in March 2018
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Grinning face of biker who mowed down and killed boy, 8, and left dad injured
Unlicensed and uninsured Nicholas Hopkins, 20, ploughed into little Mustafa Ahmed as he crossed the road with his dad and 10-year-old brother outside Greenwich Islamic Centre
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Two women admit child cruelty after death of girl, 2, in 'tragic' circumstances
Emma Lomax-Newton and Cindy Molyneux both pleaded guilty to child cruelty at Manchester Crown Court following the death of two-year-old Masie Lomax-Newton in December 2021
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Ashley Dale killers sang number one hit by 80s pop group before entering court
Ashley Dale's killers sang the Human League's Don't You Want Me Baby before going into court for their trial at Liverpool Crown Court, while one also had a puzzle book to keep in occupied in the dock
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Millionaire tech boss guilty of drug rape of two women as family 'sobs at court'
Lawrence Jones, the founder of huge Manchester tech company UK Fast, was accused of raping the two women in the 1990s while he was a piano player in pubs and hotels across the city
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Paedo dad sexually abuses girl and hands her to his son to continue as 'a prize'
Pensioner Roy Lockett, from Llanelli, Wales, and rugby coach son Austin left the young victim feeling 'worthless' after the two sick men sexually abused her in succession
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Policeman guilty of gross misconduct by assaulting and injuring woman during sex
PC Rowan Horrocks, who was based in Sheffield, left the woman with multiple and extensive injuries after he took her home with him after a night out in November 2021
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Son kills his mum by stabbing her 100 times in drug-fuelled attack at their home
Michael Rowe, 36, killed 61-year-old Bernadette Rosario - known as Bernie - in her house in the village of Penwithick, outside St Austell, Cornwall, during a drug-fuelled attack
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Dad says eerie phrase as he kills baby son - wife says it 'wasn't his voice'
Kadees Mohammed is accused of 'smothering' and beating his three-week-old son to death as well as attacking his mother and wife as they tried to stop him at their home in Birmingham - he has denied murder
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Ashley Dale's killers given 173 years behind bars for 'senseless' murder
Ashley Dale, a environmental health worker, was shot dead by James Witham who, with co-defendants Joseph Peers, Niall Barry and Sean Zeisz, was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court
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Ashley Dale's killers named as suspects in shooting of Olivia Pratt-Korbel
Little Olivia Pratt-Kobel, was just nine years old when she was gunned down by cruel dealer Thomas Cashman, 35, who had chased another supplier into her home in Dovecot, Liverpool last year
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Disgraced Stephen Bear back in court as he admits guilt over council row
Epping Forest District Council claim former Celebrity Big Brother winner Stephen Bear's fence is 'in excess of Permitted Development height' after previously ordering the jailed star to take it down
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Ashley Dale's haunting WhatsApp messages helped police catch her killers
Ashley Dale's WhatsApp voice notes and messages helped detectives to her killers where she told of "terrible anxiety over all the madness", it emerged at Liverpool Crown Court
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Skipper who caused death of passenger when boat hit buoy at high speed jailed
A chaotic scene after the boat collision saw two men thrown into the water, mobile phones lost overboard, no radio to call for help, no flares found and the boat's key snapping in the ignition in Poole Harbour
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Horrifying moment driver hits 100mph on wrong side of road trying to flee police
Louis Roser hit dangerous speeds of 100mph on the wrong side of the road as he frantically tried to escape police in Cornwall, forcing other drivers to swerve out of his way
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'Sweet' boy, 16, said 'I'll be ok mum' as he lay dying after brutal knife attack
Charlie Bartolo was rammed off his motorbike by a Nissan Qashqai before five people jumped out and knifed him repeatedly in Abbey Wood, southeast London last year
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Dad shook baby son so hard it was 'like he'd fallen from multi-storey building'
Mum Georgia Wright was jailed for three years for child cruelty, as little Dallas Kelly's dad Reece Kelly was jailed for 18 years for the brutal murder of the four-month-old