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WARNING DISTURBING: Steven Hicks had researched his victim beforehand, allowing him to orchestrate the unscheduled visit to her home at a time he wouldn’t be disturbed, a court heard

Peter Bennett, Matthew Banner, Ryan Fuller and John Sanderson were convicted of mistreating vulnerable patients at Whorlton Hall, a unit for treating people with complex needs in County Durham

Police who had pulled over to help John Brown and Sally Colligan with a burst tyre were left shocked to discover the driver had been flagged up on their system in Merseyside

The golden toilet - worth almost £5million - was stolen from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire four years ago after it went on display - James Sheen, Michael Jones and Frederick Doe all denied the charges

Jonathan Langston, 52, was killed in the crash - just one year after his wife Helen passed away from cancer, leaving their two children without a mum and dad

A teenage girl's family was enjoying their holiday at the Center Parcs in Nottinghamshire, when they offered to take in Caden Crossley who went on to rape the youngster in a vile attack

Vikas Nath, 61, was arrested at the club in the early hours of Tuesday morning after staff alerted police when the woman told them of the alleged attempted drugging

Police arrested a schoolboy with a kitchen knife in his rucksack, who allegedly intended to use the blade in a vicious attack on one of his teachers who made a joke about pork

Kane Passam, 26, from Nottingham, slapped his seven-months-pregnant partner in the face, called her "unstable" and threatened to take her baby away all while she was having Braxton Hicks contractions

A five-week-old baby tragically passed away from the delayed effects of a broken neck, sustained during a horror period in which the infant tragically suffered 23 broken ribs

Ryan Patient, 25, is accused of manslaughter for fatally punching 23-year-old stranger Jake Rainton on a stag do in the middle of the street after having 'six or seven' drinks

Martins Kovers became "enraged" after his unnamed wife went out drinking following a heated argument with him, he claimed she did not work hard enough despite him not working himself

Mathew Pickering, 49, from Neath, south Wales, is accused of strangling his girlfriend Georgina Dowey and then going out to buy bleach and cat treats to cover his tracks, a court heard

Phantom of the Forest killer Barry Prudom was the most wanted man in Britain for 18 days after he shot and killed two police officers during his two-week murder spree in the summer of 1982

Rosemary Lai is now behind bars after she tried to fleece her ex of £60,000 when his mental health was in a vulnerable state following the end of their engagement

David Apps, former special forces serviceman, gambled away nearly £12,000 of his elderly mum's money "as a result of boredom and drinking" while staying at her apartment in Hampshire

The teen who had Osama Bin Laden as his phone screensaver left handwritten notes for his family in case anything happened to him, the court was told

Samuel Warnock, 29, formerly of Devizes, Wiltshire, has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his three-month-old daughter Miyah Warnock in 2021 as he was due to stand trial for murder

Remy Gordon carried out “awful revenge” against Cody Fisher on Boxing Day after Mr Fisher made brief “unavoidable” contact with his back while leaving a crowded Birmingham bar with a friend two days earlier

William Bush was found dead on Christmas Eve in the house he shared with former fellow private school pupil Dylan Thomas, who has since been charged with murder

Gurveer Bhandal, who was 18 at the time, knifed promising footballer Ashley Day, 20, to death at a house party in Birmingham after being told to leave due to complaints over noise

Debra Picken, from Warrington, was caught speeding in her Land Rover but then made up an elaborate story to police saying that it was not her car, even adding a sticker to disguise the vehicle

Veterinarian Alberto Fioletti, 31, of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, has been jailed for 15 years for stabbing mother-of-two Stephanie Hodgkinson, 34, to death at her seaside home in Bournemouth

Painter and decorator Stephen Whittingham, 41, who met his partner on Facebook Dating but after a few months turned violent and was jealous when she spoke to men, has been jailed

Paula Jenkins, 43, from Manchester, has been slapped with a 16-month jail sentence after her XL Bully left Syed Gardazee, 12, with horrifying injuries