All news on the topic: Crown court

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Rapper Slowthai denies two rape charges as he's set to face trial next year
The 28-year-old rapper, real name Tyron Frampton, entered his pleas during a brief hearing at Oxford Crown Court on Thursday
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Met Police cop 'stole credit and debit cards from dead people' to go shopping
Ex-PC Muhammed Mustafa Darr pleaded guilty to two charges of misconduct in public office following a corruption probe by the Met Police, admitting he "abused his position"
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Stalker who targeted Corrie's Nicola Thorp in two-year ordeal faces jail
Actress Nicola Thorp, who played social worker Nicola Rubinstein on Coronation Street from 2017 to 2019, was subjected to harassment from a stalker who called himself the ‘grim reaper’
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Man who 'shot woman at pub' on Christmas Eve 'got anti-gang order weeks before'
Connor Chapman is on trial accused of murdering Elle Edwards, 26, at the Lighthouse pub on Christmas Eve last year - just two months after he was slapped with an anti-gang injunction
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Woman who kissed short-sighted girl while posing as man guilty of sex assault
Georgia Bilham, 21, created a Snapchat account pretending to be a male drug dealer and was also cleared of a further 16 sexual offence allegations by a jury at Chester Crown Court today
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Suspect booked 'prosecco and rose petals' trip days after beautician shot dead
Jurors in the Elle Edwards murder trial have been told police raided the home of Connor Chapman's parents in Woodchuch on New Year's Day, eight days after Christmas Even shootings
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Woman who 'posed as man to sexually assault teen' was 'caught in web of lies'
Georgia Bilham is on trial at Chester Crown Court, accused of deceiving a 19-year-old girl and convincing her she was a male named 'George', a drug dealer from Birmingham
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Gran 'stabbed husband to death with kitchen knife in row' as she made dinner
Teresa Hanson claims husband Paul walked into the told her to “f**k off” and called her a “bitch”. She say he then "walked onto" her kitchen knife as she prepared dinner
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'My mum was mauled to death by crazed Bully dogs and all I could do was watch'
Beverley raced to help her mum, 85-year-old retired cook Lucille Downer, as the vicious and crazed dogs attacked her as she sat in her own back garden in Rowley Regis, West Midlands
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Evil mum and stepdad found guilty of killing son, 9, found dead in cold bath
Alfie Steele, nine, had 50 injuries all over his body at the time of his death in February 2021, when he was held down in a bath. Mum Carla Scott has been found guilty of manslaughter, while partner Dirk Howell has been found guilty of murder
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'Innocent' beautician shot dead in pub amid ‘ongoing feud’ between rival groups
Elle Edwards was fatally shot just before midnight at the Lighthouse pub in Wirral, Merseyside, aged just 26. Connor Chapman is accused of her murder
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Teen hijacks police car and leaves trail of destruction during 113mph chase
Dafydd Williams, 19, hijacked a police car before speeding at 113mph through a village - but after veering into field and trying to run away, he was caught by a police dog
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M&S security guard jailed for killing shoplifter who stole food with one punch
Sabeur Trabelsi, 45, was found guilty of manslaughter after he fatally punched a 51-year-old shoplifter while chasing him in his last half hour as an M&S security guard
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'Having terminal cancer doesn't faze me - nothing is as bad as losing my son'
Melanie Tait, whose son was fatally attacked in 2020, explains that despite her terminal cancer diagnosis, she believes good always comes out of bad
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Robbery victim who refused to give evidence against suspect in court is jailed
Luke Richards had been due to testify against the man he said robbed him at his home in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in November last year but refused to give evidence
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'I've spent years caring for a grave of a man I've never met - and this is why'
Stefan Kiszko was wrongfully convicted or murdering 11-year-old Lesley Molseed in 1976 and Peter ross is so touched by his story that he visits his grave every week
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Scorned teacher turns up at lover's house in wig and hacks at wife with knife
Teacher Clare Bailey, 44, drove from her home in Dudley, West Midlands, to her married ex-lover's family home in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, wearing a disguise before launching a bloody attack
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Teen driver seen on CCTV speeding with six friends in car before horror crash
Jack Clark left multiple people with life-changing injuries following the smash just in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. He had six friends in the car with him begging him to slow down
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'I lost £70,000 after falling for stranger who winked at me during pub quiz'
The romance fraudster left Louise feeling she had fallen 'hook, line and sinker' when he winked at her during a pub quiz - but his three-year deceit would eventually drain £70,000 from her family
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Mum's emotional plea to find missing son not knowing his best pal had killed him
Worried mum Kay Main asked for help on Facebook in finding son Ben Lloyd unaware he had suffered fatal injuries in a drunken attack by best friend Jay Webster who was later jailed
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Lucy Letby 'killed baby' to 'get the attention of doctor she had a crush on'
Letby, 33, is accused of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of 10 others between 2015 and 2016 while she worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital
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Stepdad 'joked about bathing boy in bleach before murdering him with tot's mum'
Gemma Barton and Craig Crouch “encouraged and applauded each other” as they “worked together” to cause Jacob Crouch’s “suffering and death” with the youngster sustaining at least 39 rib fractures in a minimum of four separate assaults
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CCTV shows moment Met officer shot dead by handcuffed gunman armed with revolver
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT CCTV played to the jury yesterday afternoon showed Louis De Zoysa in the holding cell with Sergeant Matt Ratana, who was 54, and two other officers involved in his arrest and detention
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Mum's rampage with 50,000-volt stun gun after son arrested over girlfriend row
Mum Dawn Chaisty told her son's partner's family "You are all gonna die - just watch I will get you all killed, I will come back" while pointing the stun gun at them
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Conman's £1.2million mansion disguised as shed hiding luxury goods and antiques
Fraudster Alan Yeomans hid half of a six-bedroom mansion in Derbyshire, concealing it as a farm shed, where he kept antiques, oil paintings, and a £10,000 Rolex watch