Court Update UK, August 7

Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court):

1. David Harris to appeal against conviction for hiring hitman

2. Shame of YouTube over Three Musketeers terror gang’s hate videos: Web giant failed to remove some of the material circulated by the trio for more than a year

3. Blundering police left Milly Dowler’s killer free to murder French student when they ordered CCTV from the wrong night when probing previous attack

Royal Courts of Justice:

1. Reader Letter: Small children are dying everyday and they need our help

Birmingham Crown Court:

1. Neighbour who pulled gun in row over noise at flat jailed

Mold Crown Court:

1. ‘Blood flowed like a river’ when thug slit man’s throat over drug debts as small as £20

Wood Green Crown Court:

1. Dragons’ Den stars Peter Jones and Theo Paphitis are scammed out of £33,000 in a scam by a ‘dodgy accountant’

Bristol Crown Court:

1. Dad-of-four from Knowle found with drugs, cash and stun gun is jailed

2. Burglar took car and used it in failed smash and grab at shop

3. Nearly £50k spent on murderer Halliwell’s legal aid

Edinburgh Sheriff Court:

1. Drug dealer Malik Grant threatened to cut off man’s toes after turning Musselburgh home into drug den

Manchester Crown Court:

1. These 24 men wreaked havoc by drug dealing across North Manchester

2. This is the moment a police officer posed as an Amazon delivery man… to snare a drug dealer

3. Moment undercover cop poses as an Amazon delivery driver to snare a drug dealer

Glasgow Sherriff Court:

1. Court round-up: Cambuslang woman admits to benefit fraud totalling over £10,000

Snaresbrook Crown Court:

1. Newbury Park man in court over Ferrari arson in Emerson Park

York Crown Court:

1. Violent rapist facing ‘long prison sentence’

2. Man killed serving member of North Yorkshire Police while driving over the limit for drink and drugs

Warwick Crown Court:

1. Police investigation in to fresh abuse allegations at city children’s home continues

Liverpool Crown Court:

1. Parents warned over app used by paedophiles to target children

2. Serial robber had chaotic childhood and was ‘forced to steal to survive’

Newcastle Crown Court:

1. Jail for man who doused couple with petrol and trashed ex-partner’s home