All news on the topic: Crown court

Five men and three women are on trial after violence erupted in Liverpool outside a hotel housing refugees. Police were pelted with lit fireworks among other missiles

Jonathon Wood, 50, told a judge "thanks for ruining my life" after he was jailed for a vicious attack where he beat his victim using a suspected pool ball inside a sock in Chesterfield town centre

Bethany Cox, 22, has been cleared after being charged with taking a drug in July 2020, with her initially being accused of intending to destroy the life of a child that was capable of being born alive

The criminals were jailed for a total of 54 years after footage emerged of them using hammers, knives, and even an axe to threaten a number of businesses across the West Midlands

Jan Gholami was accused of taking out his “bad temper” on little Zahra Ghulami and bashing her head against a wall. He and his wife Roqia Ghulam denied murder

Buathip Kendray, from Suffolk, was furious after she discovered that her former boyfriend Steven Woods had moved on with someone else - she smashed her way through his home to confront the pair

Arthur Hughes encountered Emma Skinner as an agency worker at his care home, where she had been working for just a week before pinching the jewellery item from it

The 61-year-old - who has eleven grandchildren - had drank "six or seven" pints of cider, and was charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm

Mohammed Ali and Muhamed Juwara attacked wealthy victims and targeted them for their supercars in Nottingham. The thieving pair have been jailed for 27 years

Jordan Talbot's mother said the killer would "never understand the pain, emptiness and loneliness" she has caused after her 21-year-old son was killed

Angela Montgomery, 50, insisted that the cats roaming through her neighbour's flat in York actually belong to her, with CCTV footage showing her trying to lure them outside

It's now emerged that hundreds of former post office workers had been mistakenly accused of stealing, with dozens convicted in court and others jailed

Georgia Harrison has undergone a huge hair transformation after it was reported Stephen Bear could be freed from prison despite only serving 11 months of his 21 months sentence

Dragons' Den winner Ross Mendham has been accused of punching his seven months pregnancy girlfriend unconscious and has denied assault causing actual bodily harm

Hongchi Xiao pleaded not guilty to manslaughter during a hearing in Winchester crown court after Danielle Carr-Gomm died following a paida lajin therapy which involves patients being slapped repeatedly

Alice Wood drove into her fiance Ryan Watson near their home in Rode Heath, Cheshire. She hit him with her Ford Fiesta before dragging his body 158m under the car

Between today and the beginning of 2023, the Met has sacked 100 officers as it tries to root our predators from the scandal-hit force., which has lead to a devastating impact on the force's reputation with the public

Shannelle Farrier, 19, was left in excruciating pain and needed her eyes washed out with several litres of water at hospital after David Nicholson threw the chemicals in her face

Abshir Ahmed and accomplice Yasir Hugogi utilised a trick from a Top Boy storyline to make their 19-year-old victim think he had lost the drugs and had to pay them £1,000

Antonio Tibere, 25, went on a 10-minute rampage as he prowled Handsworth in Birmingham three days before Christmas last year - and has now been jailed for 30 years

Bobby Bennett abused his ex-girlfriend with a series of terrifying incidents during and after their relationship - and was handed an 18-month prison sentence by a judge

A female medic who is now in jail has been banned by her professional body after she and her lover stole medicines from terminally ill people to feed their addiction

When the gang wrongly believed Christopher Hughes had raped a teenager, they abducted and murdered the former boxer near Wigan, Greater Manchester, but now justice has caught up with them

Shah Tarakhail, 29, thought he was being cunning to avoid a driving ban - but ended up giving himself a worse charge by also attempting to pervert the course of justice

Luna, an innocent ten-month-old dog, was dragged along by her cruel owner Lucas Slim-Fitzpatrick, who has now been jailed for abuse and neglect after seriously injuring the canine