All news on the topic: Crown court

Ashley Kemp, 55, has been jailed for life for the murder of beauty salon owner Clair Armstrong having headbutted and then strangled her in a fit of rage after she threatened to dump him over rape allegations

Actor Stephen Tompkinson, who is best known for his roles in DCI Banks, Sherwood and Wild at Heart, is standing trial at Newcastle Crown Court for grievous bodily harm

Carla Scott is on trial at Coventry Crown court accused of child cruelty and murder of her nine-year-old son Alfie Steele, while her partner Dirk Howell faces a manslaughter charge

Damion Johnson, 52, appeared at Derby Crown Court today where he pleaded guilty to preventing the lawful and decent burial of 71-year-old John Wainwright

Officers found messages relating to the buying, selling and delivery of the Class A drug - including one message where the idea of exchanging coke for oral sex was mentioned

Mum Stacey Hall, 31, needed 10 stitches and surgery following a series of blows by violent now-ex Phillip McGlinchey, 31, after she came back from dinner with her friends

Rosie Frankish, 26, from Warrington, feared for her life after she was subjected to a six hour attack when Daniel Little forced his way into her home

Alan Slattery, 69, from Hastings, has been jailed after going into three banks demanding money in a note passed under the counter and warning that he is "not f***ing about"

Lucy Letby, 33, is alleged to have murdered five boys and two girls, and attempted to murder another five boys and five girls, between June 2015 and June 2016 at the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital

The head of the Crown Prosecution Service Extradition Unit, Marc Robinson, is involved in his own legal battle in Ibiza to try to recover his property from squatters

Michael Mason, 67, from Moseley, Birmingham, accidentally sent the sickening images in CDs sent to a buyer who had purchased six phones off him on Ebay

The images from Bradford show multiple machines for slaughtering chickens, a canteen area crumbling down and a haunting key box with labels such as 'vets room' and 'cat pump'

Jaydee Ashton, 35, and her crooked pals made off with cash, a debit card, driving licence, prescription medication and a mobile phone belonging to Ricky Norman

Cowardly Steven Sheridan, from Droylsden, Tameside, also stopped her going on social media claiming it as for s**g and handed her a curfew during their toxic relationship

Paul Russell, jailed for assisting Thomas Cashman in the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, said he "terrified" after the killer gave him one final message

Social workers at Derbyshire County Council were probed about what chances were missed to save baby Finey after he died on Christmas day at the hands of his parents

Royal Mail worker, Ralph Thompson, 58, was changing lanes at a roundabout when he hit Paul Watkins, 60, after "a momentary lapse in concentration".

Tareena Shakil was the first British woman prosecuted for joining ISIS after she fled to Syria with her baby in 2014, but now released from prison she is styling herself as a big brand influencer

When police pulled over the BMW in Barrow, Cumbria, cops discovered 79 wraps of heroin and one of crack cocaine hidden in bags in the footwell, along with cannabis, a knife and £1,500 cash stashed away in the driver's door pocket

Insurance company employee Angela Boote stole more than £250k in payments intended for clients which she used to fund an extravagant lifestyle - the Liverpool mum will now have to re-pay thousands

Kathryn Llewellyn, 43, and friend Teresa Morgan-Peters, 45, broke into a woman's home near Swansea wearing Halloween clown masks and doused her in bleach in a terrifying attack

Videos shown to a jury Vaughn Dolphin tells the camera 'that was a bad idea' as he pans to the smoke-filled kitchen with fans whirring around as he was convicted of multiple terror offences

Primary school teacher Fiona Beal, 49, is accused of murdering her boyfriend Nicholas Billingham and burying his body in their garden in Northampton

Cheryl Pickles, 35, and Andrew Hadwin, 39 - who was found dead in prison - deprived their child victims of food, locked them in a cupboard and forced them to take boiling hot baths

Sarah Coates was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison and ordered to take part in rehabilitation activity.‌ She was also ordered to pay court costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £154