All news on the topic: Crown court

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Handcuffed thug drags cop downstairs to escape then returns to attack girlfriend
He also punched the female officer in the face, with the ordeal leaving her in hospital and with injuries so severe that she hasn't been able to return to her job fully
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Mum laughed and told neighbour 'I just stabbed him' before boyfriend found dead
Mum of two Carrie McGuinness knifed partner Steven Davies causing him a slow agonising death over several days, during which time he Googled 'I'm dying' and 'vomiting blood'
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Son stabbed his parents 282 times then sat on doorstep to wait for police
David Taylor, 37, used three knives to stab his parents John and Beverley, both 66, to death at the family home before calling 999 and waiting on the doorstep for the police
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Stepdad admits torturing and killing girl, 5, who died with 70 horror injuries
Nadia Zofia Kalinowska was found dead at the family home in Newtonabbey in 2019 - Abdul Wahab has been in court this week accused of her murder, alongside his partner Aleksandra Wahab
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Murdered security guard pictured after being battered to death in gang attack
Christopher Molloy, 55, died following an attack by a gang of three in Bootle, Merseyside, after one accused him of "touching" his girlfriend during a confrontation near a Burger King
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Woman must pay mum's partner who abused her £35K and let him live in family home
Kirsty Easthope’s late mum Irma Barnett left her a £300,000 bungalow but also stated her live-in partner Arthur Hepple - who sexually abused Kirsty for 10 years - could remain in the property for the rest of his life
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Thugs bottled giraffe and provoked tigers then posted zoo break-in on Snapchat
Bradley Green and Nathan Daniels broke into Marwell Zoo in 2021 and filmed themselves causing damage and abusing animals before posting the shocking footage to Snapchat
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Surge in sex offence trials abandoned on day they're due to start, study shows
Trials are being rescheduled due to a lack of prosecutors being available - as latest figures reveal outstanding cases in the Crown Courts are the highest on record
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Paramedic called social services after finding 23-stone teen dead in bed
Paramedic Gareth Wyn Evans attended the family home in Newtown, Powys after being told spina bifida sufferer Kaylea was found not breathing
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Evil couple tortured kids who were fed soap and made to take boiling hot baths
Andrew Hadwin and Cheryl Pickles subjected children to sustained campaigns of physical and emotional abuse making them eat soap, take boiling showers and go without food
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Plumber stole £10,000 of gold from an elderly woman with with a heart condition
Andrew Skingley was caught after being tracked in his company van visiting a pawnbrokers where some of the missing items were recovered. The theft happened as the victim shielded during Covid
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'Foolish' prison nurse texted man jailed for sexually assaulting screaming woman
Mental health nurse Racheal Donegan became close with prison inmate Lloyd Senior back in 2016 when she was involved in providing his medication, but has avoided being struck off
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Boy, 15, storms out dock as he's found guilty of beating man to death
A 15-year-old boy stormed out the dock after he was found guilty of beating a man to death during a vicious attack that took place in the early hours of the morning near a Merseyside shopping centre
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Gunman's instagram in boast after he's jailed for shooting schoolgirl, 15
Rio Jones, 19, was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 16-and-a-half years last Tuesday (January 10) after spraying bullets on a residential street in Liverpool hitting a 15-year-old schoolgirl in the neck
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Serial rapist cop 'began sex attacks in his teens' as police fear 19 victims
One woman is understood to have told police that serial rapist police officer David Carrick sexually assaulted her when he was in his teens, as officers also fear he targeted at least 19 victims over 30 years
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CCTV shows masked teens running through Asda moments before dad stabbed to death
Ian Kirwan was found critically injured after being knifed in front of horrified shoppers at the Asda store in Redditch, Worcestershire, in March last year as boy, 15, found guilty of murder
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Parents 'killed girl, 16, found dead in squalor by letting her weight hit 23st'
Spina bifida sufferer Kaylea Titford was "fiercely independent" before lockdown, a court heard, and took part in high school PE lessons in her wheelchair before her weight soared
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Dad sexually assaulted girl wearing school uniform in shop on her 16th birthday
Ahmed Khalio, 22, groped the girl wearing her school uniform when she walked alone into the shop where he worked part-time in Liverpool, leading to him being jailed for six months
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Boy murdered Asda shopper who confronted him for messing around in toilets
Software engineer Ian Kirwan was found critically injured after being knifed in front of horrified shoppers at the Asda store in Redditch, Worcestershire, in March last year
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Police forces told to check cops against UK database after David Carrick case
Following horrific revelations of Met Police officer David Carrick's crimes, police forces across the country are now being made to check their own officers to remove other "predatory individuals"
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Suspect who escaped prison van in just his pants caught after 2 days on the run
Semi-naked prisoner Kyle Eglington escaped from the van through the side door and fled on foot having just appeared at Poole Magistrates' Court for "an offence he had not committed"
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Devastated family's tribute to 'role model' son killed by banned driver
Louis Dube was a role model who would 'show love to anybody' - he was killed when riding as a passenger in a Vauxhall Insignia that crashed with another car in Manchester
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Drunk easyJet passenger jailed after grabbing stewardess by neck on flight
EasyJet passenger Colin Smith put his hands around a flight attendant's throat after she warned to him to be careful after he got out of his seat while the plane came into land
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Mum saw baby 'lifeless' on video call after 'panicked' dad called her at work
Mother of Abel-Jax Mailey told Preston Crown Court how she saw her boy sitting on his father's lap "lifeless", as when she requested he go to the hospital with them "he wasn't really that bothered"
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Paedo mum who groomed boy, 15, into sexual relations and took photos spared jail
Nicole Lines gave a 15-year-old boy alcohol and cannabis before becoming intimate with him but has avoided a prison sentence after admitting to sexual activity with a child