Court Update UK, July 6

Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court):

1.  Second suspect hands himself into cops as 22-year-old appears in court charged with service station killing

2. Jailed: Man who rammed Range Rover into group of Muslims celebrating Eid in east London

3. Cobham Services murder: second man arrested

4. Lorry driver Peter Wright jailed for causing death of ‘wonderful father’ Anthony Duggan in London crash

Royal Courts of Justice:

1. Tony Blair must be prosecuted over Iraq War, High Court hears

2. London court hears Vedanta’s challenge to Zambian villagers’ pollution claim

3. London court to hear Dana Gas sukuk case in September

Leeds Crown Court:

1. Four men jailed for 54 years after shooting

2. NSPCC in call over online child abuse after former Lord Mayor of Leeds jailed

3. Leeds car theft house burglars handed lengthy jail sentences

York Crown Court:

1. Woman denies claims of sex abuse on boy

2. Burglars snared by DNA – from their flat caps

Lincoln Crown Court:

1. Man, 82, denies historic sex offences against five boys in Diocese of Lincoln

2. Drug dealer caught with 26 grammes of cannabis down his trousers

Manchester Crown Court:

1. Paedophile caught after using sick images of children as phone screensaver

2. Man cleared of killing a dad who collapsed and died at his 65th birthday party

3. Drug parcel discovery in Coventry Post Office depot led investigators to couriers

Warwick Crown Court:

1. Rapist posing as police officer jailed for eight years

2. Pair sentenced after stealing spare tyres at Warwick Parkway

Stafford Crown Court:

1. Mum sent her ex photo of their daughter ‘before smothering her and trying to kill herself’

Sheffield Crown Court:

1. Sheffield man jailed after being found guilty of sexually assaulting young mum while her toddler was at home

2. Supermarket goes on trial accused of failing to keep staff safe at South Yorkshire store where man fell to his death

3. These crimes against the elderly are so hateful – so why aren’t they classed as hate crimes?

4. Two years’ jail for wedding ring burglar

Ipswich Crown Court:

1. Felixstowe man took his own life during his Ipswich Crown Court trial, inquest finds

2. Shane Crossfield, Ipswich, charged with breaching order to have no more than one phone and cannabis possession

3. Burglar who raided three village homes is jailed

Newcastle Crown Court:

1. Three men in court charged with gang rape of a woman in Wallsend

2. Rogue builders ringleader fled to Spain to try to escape justice – he has now been sentenced

3. Cruel Hartlepool conman stole cash from 95-year-old with dementia

4. Sunderland murder trial hears that another man confessed to police to carrying out killing

Cardiff Crown Court:

1. Brothers ‘fist bumped’ as they were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, trial told

2. Police officer sacked after biting man’s lip as they queued to get into bar

3. Brothers accused of attempted murder in Hafodyrynys shut themselves in bedroom to take heroin and not straighten stories out, court told

Bristol Crown Court:

1. Driver ‘did not know’ his friend Kyle Clarke was being dragged under car, court told

2. Bijan Ebrahimi death – a timeline of events

High Court Glasgow:

1. Bouncer tells court he saw man disappear off bridge

2. Robber carried out terrifying knife raid on Glasgow post office – after claiming he had initially ‘gone out for a pint’

3. Mother and partner accused of neglecting and murdering two-year-old

4. Aberdeen man accused of raping woman at apartment complex

Liverpool Crown Court:

1. Speeding teen whose car sent woman flying headfirst into concrete post walks free from court

2. Girlfriend of man who killed Zac Wells ‘told victim to have straightener with boyfriend’

3. St Helens man appears in court accused of stabbing friend in heart with machete

Southwark Crown Court:

1. ADAM SIMMONDS TRIAL: Northampton MP reveals discussions with commissioner over investigation

2. Fake Abbey Wood barrister who pocketed £21,000 in legal fees jailed for 2 years

3. String of companies controlled by a businessman wound up by High Court for illegal money-lending

Norwich Crown Court:

1. Jailed in Norfolk in June: Policeman, murderer and armed gang

2. Terrified 76-year-old ‘fought for her life’ as robber threatened her with infected needle in Norwich attack

3. Perv addicted to child sex abuse images is hiring out his flashy Aston Martin to KIDS for £60 rides to school proms

Edinburgh Sheriff Court:

1. Edinburgh police officer sentenced over child abuse images

Blackfriers Crown Court:

1. Man jailed for nine years walks free after court staff wrote nine months by mistake

Birmingham Crown Court:

1. Evil Birmingham paedophile who abused FIVE girls has jail term REDUCED by judges

2. Bungling robber caught after he dropped mobile phone during £25k bank raid

3. Water park death boy’s mum and step-dad in court to deny manslaughter and ill-treatment