What's on at the Old Bailey Today

Cases of interest at the Old Bailey on Thursday, May 25

Court 1 at 10am Sentence continues of Claxton Engineering, who are charged with safety offences after four men were killed when a large steel cage they were working in collapsed.

Court 5  at 10am trial continues of Naweed Ali and three others accused of terrorism. The four were arrested after a car was stopped and a meat cleaver was found with the word “kafir” scratched on the blade. They are accused of preparing acts of terrorism last summer.

Court 6 at 10am trial continues of Viktoria Tautz, a Hungarian child minder, who allegedly caused fatal head injuries to a 10 month old boy she was caring for.  It is claimed she either shook or hit the tot.

Court 7 at 10am trial continues of four youths, who cannot be named because of their young age, accused of stabbing to death 19 year old Hussein Ahmed. The killing was described as “unprovoked and senseless”

Court 10 at 10am New trial of Awat Hamasalih accused of three terrorism offences including being in possession of articles for terrorist purposes

Court 12 at 10am trial continues of Andrew Beadie accused of attempting to murder a plain clothed police officer. The victim was repeatedly stabbed. Beadie told the court he thought the officer was a “crackhead”

Court 13 at 10am trial continues of Russian banker Andrey Ryjenko and his sister,Tatjana Sanderson , who allegedly received bribes totalling £2.2 million to gain funding from the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development for his Russian and UK clients

Court 14 at 10am  trial of Sugan Sothilingham and three others accused of murder and attempted murder following a mass axe, sword and machete brawl in a Mitcham, South London carpark. Justin Neel Croos,26, died of head injuries.

Court 15 at 10am trial continues of Abukar Bana and others accused of murder. Raja Rashid Ali,33, was stabbed 13 times outside a supermarket in Dagenham, Essex.

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