All news on the topic: Crown court

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Killer shares his immediate reaction after he 'learned of Ashley Dale's death'
James Witham, who has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 28-year-old Ashley Dale in Old Sean and denies murder, has told of his first reaction after learning of her death
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Moment thug stabs daughter’s father-in-law to death after wedding gifts row
Ahmad Al Sino confronted Mohammed Salem Ibrahim on his own doorstep in Castle Vale, Birmingham, and stabbed him four times with a knife later found in a plastic bag in the killer's car
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Ashley Dale murder accused fled UK after shooting as he feared 'retaliation'
Ian Fitzgibbon is among five men accused of murdering 28-year-old Ashley Dale, and claims he fled to Dubai after her death in August last year because he feared "people were gonna retaliate"
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Patient 'talked bomb suspect out of blowing up hospital after seeing him upset'
An ongoing terror trial has heard how one patient bravely talked a would-be bomber out of his attack, detonating his device in the canteen, instead chatting to them four hours
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HIV-positive paedophile prison officer who raped young child jailed for 22 years
Martin Richards, 50, was sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court to more than two decades in jail for the rape of a young girl who had her childhood 'stolen' by his 'calculating and manipulative' crimes
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Woman went to sleep after party - what she woke up to will 'always haunt me'
Chelsea Hern, now 23, was happily celebrating her new job offer when things took a horrifying turn as she woke up the next morning to find a random man in her bed
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Teacher banned after using secret camera for upskirting images of pupils
Jeffrey Wilson has been banned from teaching for life after using a camera pen to take upskirting pictures of pupils and staff, committing his perverted crimes at two separate schools
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Drunk driver's five cowardly words after crashing car and leaving friend to die
Van driver Ashley Dean, 40, downed six pints and sniffed a line of cocaine to 'sober up' before smashing his car on March 23 last year. His friend Lisa Birtwistle died that night
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White supremacist schoolboy given Hitler's Mein Kampf for Christmas at age 10
Malakai Wheeler would doodle swastikas on his school books and was caught doing a Nazi salute - he denied terrorism offences and sharing information with other white supremacists but has now been jailed
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'Shameful' rapist attacked woman in club toilet then took pals to scene to gloat
Onyedika Oriaku followed a woman to the toilets of a nightclub in Swansea and raped her - only to return to the toilets where he'd just carried out the sex attack with a pal - something the judge described as 'sinister'
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Crufts breeder faces jail for throwing empty gun cartridges through Palace gates
David Huber, 60, of Cumbria, threw two empty shotgun cartridges through the gates of Buckingham Palace four days before King Charles III's coronation, and have admitted having a knife and ammunition
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Ashley Dale murder accused takes witness stand and tells jury 'I am no angel'
Ashley Dale defendant Niall Barry, giving evidence at Liverpool Crown Court, denied being the leader of an organised crime group but told the jury he was 'no angel'
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Thug murdered defenceless mum on Valentine's Day and robbed her as she lay dead
A thug who bludgeoned his flatmate to death with a claw hammer in a jealous rage - then stole from her as she lay dead - has been jailed for life
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Man accused of plotting to kidnap and murder Holly Willoughby pleads not guilty
Gavin Plumb, 36, of Potters Field, Harlow is charged with soliciting to commit murder and incitement to kidnap former ITV This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant, 75, jailed after £4.5m fraud case
Jeff Arundell appeared on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? all the way back in 2000 where he answered just six questions using all the lifelines, winning only £1,000
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Owner whose XL Bully mauled boy, 12, tells court dog is 'great around children'
Paula Jenkins pleaded guilty to two charges of owning a dog dangerously out of control when she appeared in court after her pet attacked the boy and a neighbour
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Dad murders 4-month-old son by causing injuries to tot’s spine, ribs and brain
Reece Kelly was convicted of murder following a three-week trial at Carlisle Crown Court, during which the jury had heard baby Dallas sustained a bleed to his brain
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Rapper Lady Leshurr found not guilty of attacking ex-girlfriend's partner
A jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London found Lady Leshurr not guilty on two counts of occasioning actual bodily harm on Wednesday
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Football yob found guilty of racially abusing Rio Ferdinand during Man Utd match
Jamie Arnold will be sentenced in December after being found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United icon Rio Ferdinand at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Wednesday
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Drug dealer 'threatened Ashley Dale's boyfriend in month before her gun murder'
Niall Barry, giving evidence at Liverpool Crown Court today, said he had been friends with Ashley Dale's boyfriend Lee Harrison but stopped speaking to him
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Farmer's cruel remark when locals confronted him for dragging his dog behind car
Farmer Kim Norman Rendall is facing jail after he was filmed dragging his white husky Daisy behind his red Nissan Micra - she had to be put down as her injuries were so severe
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Killer poured petrol on wife and set her on fire before confessing on Facebook
Georgian Constantin was found guilty of murdering his estranged wife Valentina Cozma in Stoke by setting her on fire and jailed for life over the sickening fireball attack
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Moment two elderly Muslim worshippers set on fire in attacks outside UK mosques
Mohammed Abbkr is on trial accused of attempting to murder two elderly worshippers by setting them on fire in separate attacks in London and Birmingham, with new footage capturing the incidents
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Ashley Dale's murder 'began over theft of £40,000 worth of cocaine', court hears
Ashley Dale, 28, was shot in her home in Old Swan, Liverpool, in August last year, after an alleged feud between her partner Lee Harrison and the five men accused of her murder
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Moment drug driver inhaled laughing gas before ‘wiping out’ life of girl, 15
Delivery driver Cameron Hughes, 24, was recorded inhaling laughing gas as he drove teenage passenger Bonney Rae Barrow, 15, before crashing at around 65mph in Huncoat, Lancashire