All news on the topic: Crown court

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Porn actress high on cocaine escapes from police car while half-naked
Roma Lawson escaped from a police car after being arrested in Margate and led officers on a half-naked chase as she evaded the law and bit an officer before finally being arrested again
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Dad posted fundraising page for tot's funeral - just weeks after murdering him
Oliver Mailey shared a fundraising page for his son, Abel-Jax's, funeral and even got his name tattooed on his neck just a matter of weeks after he killed him
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Teen killed in crash had role in stealing takeaway owner's car that ran him over
Dean Barnes, 16 — who died in a motorbike crash earlier this week — had previously been convicted for his role in a car theft that saw a takeaway owner killed, it has been revealed
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Mum 'beaten to death' had injuries 'usually seen in car crash or huge fall'
Lauren Howe, 26, was found dead at her home in West Yorkshire last July with severe injuries including a torn liver, as her partner Charlie Booth is now on trial for her murder
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Paedophile, 21, posed as 14-year-old in uniform to get into victim's school
Anthony Lonsdale, 21, set up fake profiles on Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp and contacted a girl, sending her increasingly intimate messages and sexually explicit photos
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Angry woman tries to burn down man's home after 'betrayal' but gets wrong flat
Janie Ann Peckitt tried to set fire to a man's flat in Grimsby after she felt he betrayed her following only two dates - but she posted the burning rag through the wrong letterbox
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Fixated lover 'paid hitman to kill work colleague after fling ended', court told
Helen Hewlett is accused of using the dark web to hire a hitman after a fling with a colleague led to an alleged two-year stalking campaign against him
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Man's horror at reading 'letters' from teen who accused him of sex trafficking
Mohammed Ramzan criticised authorities for not spotting the 'gaping holes' in Eleanor Williams' story earlier and said his family has been through 'unimaginable trauma'
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Nurse Lucy Letby 'offered to take pic of girl she’d just murdered', court hears
Lucy Letby was smiling when she took pictures of Child I's tiny body, her mum said. The baby was born at Liverpool Women’s Hospital in August 2015 before being transferred to the ­Countess of Chester
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Serial sex attacker groped schoolgirls in 18-month reign of terror on buses
Goher Damani won't go to prison and has been hospitalised indefinitely under Section 37 of the Mental Health Act after a number of harrowing attacks on children in south London
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Triple killer asylum seeker who murdered 'perfect boy' in e-scooter row jailed
Afghani asylum seeker Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, 21, murdered 21-year-old Thomas Roberts outside a Subway sandwich shop in Bournemouth after being freed for a double murder in Serbia
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Son, 27, ties up own mum and holds her prisoner before demanding £10,000
Drunken Michal Strehlau admitted attempted robbery and false imprisonment of his mother who was forced to flee from a window after a near four-hour ordeal in Hull, east Yorkshire, on October 2
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Maggots fed on obese teen's body 'for at least 48 hours' before she was found
Alun Titford denies manslaughter by gross negligence after his disabled daughter Kaylea Titford, 16, died at home in Powys, Wales, but mum Sarah Lloyd-Jones has pleaded guilty to the offence
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Woman raped by stranger to save life of man she was on a first date with
The couple had been walking home from their first date in Sunderland when Sean Robinson began attacking the man, before dragging the woman into a bush leaving her traumatised
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Schoolgirl ballooned to 23 stone before dying because 'of how she was cared for'
Kaylea Titford, 16, spent the last years of her young life in conditions 'not fit for animals' after allegedly being neglected by her parents, a court heard
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Ex-Man Utd player who signed £1m deal at 14 appears in court accused of rape
John Cofie, 30, has been charged with raping a woman in Trafford, Greater Manchester, in 2019, alongside co-accused Nathan Stuart.
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Screaming dad 'tortured to death' in his own home as ex-wife accused of murder
Thomas Campbell, 38, was tortured for several hours before he was killed in his Tameside home, a court heard, as the three defendants accused of his murder include his ex-wife
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Chef emptied jar of cockroaches in pub kitchen after pay row forcing it to close
Tom Williams, 25, had a row over the holiday pay at the Royal William V1, in Lincoln, after he left his job and threatened to "cockroach bomb" the kitchen on October 11, 2022, Lincoln Crown Court heard
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Ex-MP 'tried to claim up to £30,000 to fund cocaine habit' court hears
Jared O'Mara is on trial for allegedly submitting 'dishonest' invoices to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority - prosecutor James Bourne-Arton told a court the former MP had 'a significant cocaine habit'
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Man found guilty of robbing Mark Cavendish and wife in knifepoint raid
Romario Henry, 31, had denied two counts of robbery at an earlier hearing, but was found guilty on both counts by a majority verdict of 10 jurors to two on Monday
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'Teen' in Brit school unmasked as convicted killer who murdered two with AK-47
Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai gunned down two fellow Afghans with an AK-47 in a row about trafficking when he was in Serbia, around a year before he entered the UK as a 14-year-old schoolboy despite being 18 at the time
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Refugee who stabbed Brit to death by Subway had killed 2 other people in Serbia
Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai was found guilty of stabbing 21-year-old Thomas Roberts to death in a row over an e-scooter in Bournemouth, last year, but it emerged the refugee had a string of convictions following him across Serbia and Italy
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'Overwhelmed' mum told kids to get out of family home before setting it on fire
Cheryl Duggan from Gateshead had been struggling to cope with her life, and took the extreme step in a suicide attempt, telling her children to leave the house first
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Illegal Hobbit-sized basement flat for rent leads to massive £80,000 fine
Two defendents were ordered to pay a huge fine plus costs to Birmingham City Council for renting the basement flat out illegally. In total, the pair will have to pay £83,000 in fines plus costs
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Parents of teen killed by drink driver blast justice shambles after 'no support'
Paul and Nicky Johnson’s 17-year-old daughter Phoebe was killed when a car being driven by her friend, Melissa Keilloh, crashed on the A514 near Derby in October 2021