Court Update UK, August 2

Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court):

1. GUILTY: Islamist Birmingham bomb gang plotting British mainland atrocity

2. Terror cell dubbed ‘Three Musketeers’ convicted of plotting Lee Rigby-style attack

3. Murder victim inadvertently filmed his own death during bondage sex game

4. Father spared jail over Northern Cyprus abduction plot

5. Nephew finds hidden footage of uncle’s ‘murder’ two years after everyone thought he died in a fire

Royal Courts of Justice:

1. Judges urged to come out of their ‘shell of silence and exclusivity’

2. Chalcots estate: residents crowdfund for independent fire safety inspection

3. Plight of Charlie Gard hijacked by campaigners: Louise Allonby

Leeds Crown Court:

1. Leeds ambulance man and his secret lover caught with cocaine

2. Carer jailed for knocking down pensioners in rush to get to work

3. Owner of boat where two fishermen died of carbon monoxide poisoning admits breaching safety laws

4. Carer on ‘unrealistic’ zero hours contract knocked down elderly women

Southwark Crown Court:

1. Viscount jailed for racially abusive posts

High Court Glasgow:

1. Teenager detained for raping six-year-old girl in Glasgow

2. Former employee admits £1m Dundee council fraud

3. Man Due in Court Over Death of Mechanic Brian McKandie

Lincoln Crown Court:

1. Man mistakenly arrested in Lincoln found to be supplying Mamba

2. Police raid cannabis factory capable of growing £250,000 worth of the drug a year

3. Four men jailed after “cruel phone scam” conned Wainfleet pensioner out of £72,000

Edinburgh Sheriff Court:

1. Jim Clark Rally crash witness recalls ‘pandemonium’

Truro Crown Court:

1. Serial offender Thomas Hewer jailed for smashing Sidney Isaacs in face with axe in Redruth street

2. Murderers

Birmingham Crown Court:

1. Man, 27, in court charged with raping girl, 14, who was attacked TWICE in one night by two different men

2. Shocking moment machete-wielding thug faces brave unarmed cops in Birmingham city centre before they chase yob for more than half a mile

3. Mother who stamped toddler daughter to death has sentence for murder reduced by five years

Canterbury Crown Court:

1. Paul Smith jailed for attacking partner in Whitstable

2. Romanian lorry driver Traian Soare admits causing deaths of Nikita Tsirelson and Artem Larionov in Dover

3. Child sex doll seizures in UK help police identify dozens of paedophiles

Manchester Crown Court:

1. Airport security boss put seized pipe bomb in her pocket, court told

2. John Burke: Fraudster who stole £160k from elderly woman is jailed

3. Drug dealer read hundreds of books in jail to learn how to carry out £1m tax scam

Liverpool Crown Court:

1. One man crimewave threatened to “shred” motorist for beeping at him

2. Pervert claimed sex messages to schoolgirls were just “banter”

3. Drug dealer John Johns GUILTY of murder over gangland execution of Mark Hillman

Cardiff Crown Court:

1. Police officer who shared extreme porn in a WhatsApp holiday group chat loses his job

2. Primary school teacher who viewed live stream of six-year-old boy’s rape jailed

3. Three are jailed after disorder in Pill, Newport which saw fireworks thrown at police

Norwich Crown Court:

1. Former Eastenders actor arrives at Norwich Crown Court

2. Neighbours pay tribute to gentle, caring and quiet Norwich murder victim Farnaz Ali

Bristol Crown Court:

1. Teacher jailed for watching live stream of child rape

2. Office boss jailed for glass attack after getting ‘look’

3. Alleged British paedophile still fighting extradition

Sheffield Crown Court:

1. Sheffield man jailed for possessing and distributing child pornography

2. Armed robbery getaway driver spared jail

3. Getaway driver spared jail over Rotherham bank raid

Glasgow Sheriff Court:

1. Twelve men arrested after probe into banners at Celtic vs Linfield Champions League game

2. Jealous ex-wife of former Scots footie star Scott McLean dodges jail after stalking and threatening his new missus online with fake nude pics

Snaresbrook Crown Court:

1. JAILED: ‘Shameless’ Walthamstow fraudster Christopher Theile told bosses he was dying of cancer while scamming company out of £1.2 million

Brighton Crown Court:

1. Racist boss has jail term reduced

Winchester Crown Court:

1. Stormforce Coaching, the yachting company which owned the Cheeki Rafiki, goes into liquidation

2. Man, 20, appears in court accused of stabbing a soldier in the head at Aldershot army barracks

Inner London Crown Court:

1. Two businessmen jailed over £200,000 horsemeat scandal

2. Two men jailed over horsemeat scandal

York Crown Court:

1. Jail sentence suspended for sex assault

2. Man walks free over ‘appalling images’

Isleworth Crown Court:

1. Pair from Devonport Road in Shepherd’s Bush sentenced to total of eight years

2. Stewart Girvin refused to return belongings of tenant he had unlawfully evicted

Stafford Crown Court:

1. Man, 59, accused of attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity

2. This stalker caused his ex-partner’s suicide – but he’s far from the only one

Aylesbury Crown Court:

1. Aiden George, 21, of Spearing Road, High Wycombe, charged in connection with double stabbing pleads not guilty