UPDATE: On 18 October the pupil was given a life sentence at Exeter Crown Court, and ordered to serve a minimum of 12 years in prison. A private school pupil who left two of his housemates with ...

A man has become the first person to be sentenced in the West Midlands for riot following the summer widespread unrest across the UK. Simon Orr, 38, of Grazier Avenue, Tamworth, was sentenced today ...

A former Olympic swimmer and trainee police officer, who represented Great Britain at the 2012 London Games, has been convicted of raping two teenage girls (Wednesday 16 October).

A Sunderland doctor has been convicted of attempting to kill his mother’s partner, after injecting him with a toxin that ...

A paedophile who paid and instructed an adult in the Philippines to sexually abuse children as young as two years old has been jailed.

A woman who gave false information and lied about her qualifications when applying and interviewing for a job as a senior nurse at a Welsh neonatal unit has been jailed for fraud.

A man who used fake online profiles to talk to children and request indecent images from them has been jailed today. Daniel Lee, 29, appeared at Newcastle Upon Tyne Crown Court on 14 October 2024 ...

A romance fraudster who conned his victim into borrowing money and handing over her savings has been ordered to pay back over ...

Ian Hamilton, 63, from Dover, was found guilty of rapes and indecent assaults over a 23-year period between 1976 and 1999. The women gave strikingly similar accounts of his violent sexual behaviour, ...

Weiji Chen, 29, of Birchfield Road in Liverpool and John Kinsella, 34, of St Julien Drive in Liverpool, had earlier pleaded ...

A former police officer who preyed on two teenage girls by ‘befriending’ them online and then sexually exploiting them has been jailed following a successful CPS prosecution. Elliot Wright, 29, was ...

A care worker who had sex without the consent of a vulnerable young disabled woman in a care home in Maidstone has today been jailed. Police were called after a condom wrapper was found in the woman’s ...