Court Update UK, July 7

Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court):

1. Illegal immigrant is jailed for leading gang of Nigerian fraudsters who pretended to be MPs, police and even judges in £10million benefits scam

2. Ricky Hayden murder: Accused ‘threatened with baseball bat’

3. Aaron Jackson, Jahliel Rose and a 17-year-old youth plead not guilty over Halloween stabbing death of Scott Kouebitra from Sutton

4. ‘Life should mean life’ Father of Kenneth Noye victim urges against open prison move

5. Thug sabotages murder trial by swallowing razors and soiling himself

Royal Courts of Justice:

1. Chilcot report – what were the Iraq Inquiry’s findings and could Tony Blair’s immunity from prosecution be reviewed?

2. Silence takes Alnylam to court over RNAi IP dispute

Leeds Crown Court:

1. Leeds father took teenage son for ‘exorcism’

2. The people locked up this month: ‘Love triangle’ killers, a woman who stabbed her partner to death, callous thief and a bogus window cleaner

3. Garage owner jailed for receiving stolen car

4. LISTEN: Scarborough Man Jailed for Manslaughter

York Crown Court:

1. Woman cleared of sex assaults on young boy

2. Caught by their flat caps – bogus callers who targeted Great Ayton, Boroughbridge and Scagglethorpe in Ryedale are jailed after being snared by DNA on headgear

Lincoln Crown Court:

1. Duo handed jail sentences after string of burglarie

Inner London Crown Court:

1. Businessman ‘secretly mixed horsemeat with beef’ in national scandal

Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court:

1. Thug held knife at pregnant woman and called her a ‘fat b***h’ after flying into a rage when she parked outside her brother’s home for the school run

Manchester Crown Court:

1. Drink driver Tasered after leading cops on terrifying 60mph chase through Manchester’s Gay Village

2. Manager jailed for stealing £46,000 of school dinner money

3. Man with knife jailed after telling police he wanted to ‘kill Asian b******* for blowing us up’ in revenge for Arena attack

Southwark Crown Court:

1. Scammer Susan Benstead from former Crown Currency in Hayle ordered to repay more than £850,000

2. Woman convicted of making false rape and sex assault claims against 15 men

Mold Crown Court:

1. Man accused of murder of schoolgirl in 1976 ‘admitted killing someone’, ex-wife tells trial

2. Flint murder trial: Murder and rape accused told police he did not know girl

3. Jail for man who sold drugs from flat in Mold to pay debt

Cardiff Crown Court:

1. Cardiff Koran teacher jailed for child sex abuse

2. Machen man jailed for filming sexual assault while victim slept

3. Porthcawl man’s stabbing life sentence overturned

Ipswich Crown Court:

1. ‘Prolific’ burglar with 14 previous convictions is jailed for 4 years after breaking into Ipswich homes

2. Police seek owners of recovered stolen bicycles

3. Hadleigh businessman loses appeal against conviction for selling unsafe goods

Newcastle Crown Court:

1. Ex-Newcastle United coach denies sex offences

2. ‘I’ll never know why my Jimmy was tortured,’ says Jimmy Prout’s ex partner in heartbreaking interview

3. Eight men accused of mass brawl in Newcastle’s House of Smith, which caused ‘significant’ injuries

Glasgow Crown Court:

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

2. Man charged with murder after ‘weapon attack’ in flat

Liverpool Crown  Court:

1. Vodka swigging alcoholic put his hand up woman’s skirt on train

2. Man stabbed in the neck during attack by two brothers after hassling their mum

3. Speeding teen whose car spun 180 degrees then sent woman flying headfirst into concrete post is spared jail

Edinburgh Crown Court:

1. A perv Scots cop caught with almost 900 indecent images of kids dodges jail

2. Man charged under Explosives Act in Edinburgh