All news on the topic: Crown court

Met Police sergeant Matt Ratana was just weeks from retirement when he was shot in the thigh and chest by weapons-obsessed Louis de Zoysa at a custody suite in Croydon, south London

James Johnson, who denies murder, allegedly put David Toulson in a "deliberate and dangerous chokehold" at a flat in Salford, Greater Manchester on June 25 last year

Jail sentences for key figures in bent companies that netted £6.5million

Eloddie Goncalves, from Essex, has been found guilty of murdering her 11-week-old son Malik who suffered injuries consistent with being shaken and having his head hit against a hard surface, a court heard

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey wept as a jury delivered not guilty verdicts inside Southwark Crown Court, after denying accusations he sexually assaulted four men in the period between 2001 and 2013.

Mihiai Hurmuz-Irimia murdered Katie Hurmaz-Irimia in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, just days after they returned from a trip to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary

Field admitting he had deceived former teacher Peter Farquhar along with string of reprehensible actions in the hoped of getting away with murder - even boasting about planning to 'get away with mot of it' within earshot of police

Graham Head, 66, has been jailed for 18 years after he prowled the streets of Brighton in his silver Mercedes estate attempting to pick up and attack young female passengers

Simon Abraham, who worked at Eastbourne District General Hospital, contacted the woman in October 2020 after she had been treated for severe headaches. He claimed that he had had a call from a colleague who was concerned about her condition and that he had been trained in specialist massage in India for two years

Graham Head, 66, targeted 'intoxicated' and 'vulnerable' women as he drove around Brighton and Hove looking for people to assault - police believe there could be more victims

Damien Bendall murdered his pregnant girlfriend Terri Harris and three children with a claw hammer during a sleepover in September 2021 - now the site of the horrific murder has been bulldozed

Steven Walton, from Newcastle, has been found guilty of murdering Jason Lord by "kicking and stamping" him to death for innocently saying hello to a girl he passed in the street

The Hollywood actor is accused of a number of assault charges - including one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and seven counts of sexual assault, allegations the actor vehmently denies

Boxing champion Amir Khan, 36, was forced to hand over his Franck Muller Vanguard Chronograph after he left the Sahara Grill restaurant in east London with his wife Faryal

More than two years after her prison sentence, 37-year-old Kandice Barber has been spotted working on a council site in West London, where she controls traffic and checks security passes

Post Office staff failed to check Prabjeet Veadhesa’s ID when he collected the deadly parcel - and apparently assessed the 16-year-old to be over 25 simply by looking at him

Fraser Dolman and Wayne Hepburn plotted together to torch the front door of a rival in what was described as a "warning" connected to the drug trade - before mistakenly targeting George Redmond's home

Carl Ball was attacked with a plank of wood outside his own home and while "slowly dying" from internal bleeding named his attacker as his brother-in-law Andrew Southwood

WARNING MENTIONS SUICIDE: Edward Weeks recorded himself on motion-sensitive cameras around his bedroom as he sexually assaulted and raped vulnerable girlfriend Tina Lewis while she slept

Gheorge Lupu has been jailed after having affair with a woman and then sending a video of them having sex to her husband and mum in an apparent attempt to strongarm her into continuing the relationship

Lorna Silcock dragged Kayleigh Rutherford to the ground in a public park and launched a vicious assault after her victim accused Silcock's children of teasing her own daughter

Courtney Boorne was strangled by Liam Cain in the flat they shared in Merseyside not long after she warned her mum to 'call the police if you don't hear from me within the hour'

Marcus Maddison, who began his career at Newcastle United, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm and will be sentenced next month

Mihiai Hurmuz-Irimia, 29, is accused of murdering his wife Katie at their Oxfordshire home after stabbing her 171 times following an argument on their anniversary

The family of pregnant Hollyoaks actress Frankie Julia Hough, who died in a car crash on the M66, have branded the sentence given to a BMW driver as 'insulting'