Court Update UK, August 1

Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court):

1. Computer repairman ‘terrorised and killed by fake policeman during bondage’

2. Moped killer guilty of hacking celeb bodyguard Ricky Hayden to death with a machete outside his family home

3. Coach Trip star’s dad faces jail after laundering profits of £430k fraud on elderly

4. Marine who turned to terror jailed for 18 years

Royal Courts of Justice:

1. Chalcots Estate residents refused temporary accommodation extension after council deems blocks safe despite fire concerns

2. Racist boss has jail term reduced

Mold Crown Court:

1. Off-licence boss who turned to drug trade to make ends meet made to hand over £85,000

Cambridge Crown Court:

1. Thugs stamped on man’s head and attacked him with beer bottle

2. Jail for two men who attacked a March man hitting him with a bottle and stamping on his head

Leeds Crown Court:

1. Boat owner admits breaching safety laws, court hears

2. Woman tracked down her stolen £45k Mercedes and went after thieves herself

Canterbury Crown Court:

1. Ramsgate former church warden David Turner admits trying to import child sex doll

2. Court reporters win legal challenge to identify parents of neglected baby in Kent Online reports

3. Herne Bay carer finally jailed over 20 years after he sexually assaulted young boy

Bristol Crown Court:

1. Bristol recruitment executive glassed men because she thought one had given her an evil look

2. Man accused of possessing kitchen knife outside The Forum to appear at Crown court

Birmingham Crown Court:

1. Man in court after girl raped twice in Birmingham

2. Child killer Kathryn Smith has jail term for stamping toddler daughter to death cut by appeal court

Warwick Crown Court:

1. Man accused of stabbing wife on Valentine’s Day has charges dropped

2. Institutionalised thief wanted to go back to jail

3. Richard Brampton smashed a glass into the face of Dean Walker who had been upsetting people at a wedding reception

Liverpool Crown Court:

1. Benefits cheat Chelsey Harwood flaunts freedom after jail spell

2. Speeding driver left pensioner with broken neck before fleeing the scene in “act of cowardice”

Ipswich Crown Court:

1. Boots optometrist Honey Rose has her conviction overturned over death of Vinnie Barker, 8, from Ipswich

2. Jealous Colchester bodyguard who fitted tracking devices to his ex-girlfriend’s car jailed for four years

Manchester Crown Court:

1. Man tried to smuggle pipe bomb onto plane at Manchester Airport, court hears

2. Wythenshawe Hall: Man admits Tudor mansion arson attack

Norwich Crown Court:

1. Sex abuse trial of former EastEnders actor Joseph Shade, from Sheringham, delayed

2. Youth in Chapelfield Gardens attack case chooses not to give evidence in defence

Snaresbrook Crown Court:

1. Walthamstow woman spat so much in police car it had to be taken out of service, court hears

Stafford Crown Court:

1. Benefits cheat claimed she was too disabled to walk a metre is caught out by holiday snaps where she’s snorkelling

Aylesbury Crown Court:

1. High Wycombe man, David Booth, from Carrington Road, jailed for child sex offences

2. Four men charged with burglaries at Beaverbrooks Jewellers and John Lewis in Milton Keynes

Southwark Crown Court:

1. Music mogul Jonathan King to face trial over sex attacks on under-age boys

2. Disgraced police officer thrown out of force after jail term for fraud

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