All news on the topic: Crown court

Bernie Ecclestone appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday morning after being accused of fraud - with the former Formula 1 boss pleading guilty to the charge

James Witham opened fire with a Skorpion sub-machine gun less than four hours later and the bullets killed Ashley Dale but, while he accepts manslaughter, he denies murder

Judges have been told to delay sentencing hearings from next week in a desperate bid to keep down the prison population, while ministers consider letting criminals out early

Ellie Warner's boyfriend Nat Eddleston was left fighting for his life after being hit by Seat Ibiza outside a pub in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in March last year

Brian Jalo, 25, Juan Quinones, 24, are accused of raping a young woman in Manchester city centre back in May 2021, whilst Justice Tandoh, 21, kept lookout, a court heard

Craig Ford, from Wavertree, is believed to have set fire to his cell at HMP Berwyn, in Wrexham, with a vape and then punched a prison guard in the face when she came to help

Ashley Dale, 28, was shot and killed in her home in Merseyside during summer last year - five men deny her murder as the trial at Liverpool Crown Court continues

Reed Wischhusen is on trial at Bristol crown court after he ran towards Avon & Somerset Police officers at his home with a weapon, which he claims was part of a suicide attempt

The gunman who killed Ashley Dale after a bullet was fired at her home enjoyed an Everton game before he made his way over the property, Liverpool Crown Court has heard

Ertan Ersoy, 51, is accused of killing university lecturer Dr Antonella Castelvedere, who was found stabbed to death on the kitchen floor at their home in Colchester, Essex

Metropolitan Police officer Rachel Bright, 45, is alleged to have put her hand up a junior colleague's skirt at a work Christmas party where she had been drinking Prosecco all evening, a court heard

Virginia McCullough, 35, has been accused of killing her parents John and Lois McCullough between August 2018 and September this year. Inquests were opened in Chelmsford today

Elisha Handley, 33, from Birmingham, claimed "everyone was taking money" after stealing more than £9,000 from elderly people while working as a care worker, a court heard

Ashley Dale, 28, was hit in the abdomen by a bullet when gunman James Witham, 41, kicked down the door of her home in Liverpool on August 21 last year, a trial at Liverpool Crown Court has heard

The family of Kasey Anderson, who was brutally killed before his 25th birthday, have shared the warning signs his killer girlfriend, Natalie Bennett, displayed before she stabbed him in the heart

Owen Walker, from Worcester, has been jailed for drug dealing after his mum found a gun in his bedroom while she was tidying and called the police leading to his arrest

Owner of skip company Digaway Daniel Jenkins was jailed for two years and two months for attacking a customer on his own driveway in Pontllanfraith near Blackwood

Lynne Leyson was the 'dominant force' behind her family's drug business that pushed out cocaine and cannabis across swathes of south west Wales before her husband and son were caught and arrested and she went on the run

Phoebe Johnson was just days away from turning 18 when she was killed in the passenger's seat of Melissa Keilloh's car near the Leicestershire border- 15 minutes before the crash Melissa told Phoebe and her pal she was drunk

The teen driver, now 20, had only passed her driving test a month ago when she lost control of her car while driving down a straight stretch of road and crashed down an embankment and into a tree

Patricia Bennett was found to have swindled the company she worked at for 25 years of £163,000, .

Lee Whewell was jailed for two years after a court heard of a violent outburst against his partner left her with large wounds to the back of her head which needed to be glued shut at hospital

Ahmad Al Sino fatally stabbed dentist Mohammed Salem Ibrahim, 55, and slashed his son Aram at their home in Birmingham in March following a row over wedding gifts

Charlotte Evans had used her close friend's name to take out car insurance, as well as giving the name and date of birth of Chloe Cavell to police following a collision

Piran Ditta Khan is accused of being involved in the deadly robbery of a travel agent 18 years ago. At Leeds crown court, he pleaded not guilty to Sharon Beshenivsky's murder