Court Update UK, October 6

Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court):

1. Migrant drug dealer jailed for street killing seen by children

2. Human trafficking trio guilty of running sex ring

3. New book provides fascinating insight into Gerry Conlon’s life

Liverpool Crown Court:

1. Paramedic fights tears in court as she describes battle to save ‘murdered’ toddler

2. Thug who terrorised family with sledgehammer asks for jail sentence to be reduced

3. Man appears in Liverpool court charged with conspiring with Plymouth people to supply crack cocaine and heroin

Sheffield Crown Court:

1. Man stabbed young Sheffield dad to death as his girlfriend was in next room, court hears

Cardiff Crown Court:

1. Cwmbran residents were woken by woman screaming as burglars broke in

2. Pensioner chased burglar who had sneaked into his home and caught him with the help of postman

Birmingham Crown Court:

1. Bullets made by firearms dealer found at 100 crime scenes including fatal shootings, court hears

2. Revenge attacker hit man with his car in Leicester and then fled country to evade capture

3. Antiques dealer made bullets used in scores of UK shootings, court told

Newcastle Crown Court:

1. Drunk boyfriend ‘looked like the devil’ as he stabbed girlfriend three times in frenzied attack

2. Planning row killer Albert Dryden freed after stroke

3. ‘I thought he was going to kill me’ – man jailed for 10 years after stabbing girlfriend in chest and arm

Manchester Crown Court:

1. Should elderly drivers be tested more regularly?

2. 90-year-old driver admits killing women outside hospital after accidentally pressing the accelerator in his automatic car

3. Driver, 90, admits killing couple outside Withington Hospital

Lincoln Crown Court:

1. Ex-soldier David Santini admits Help for Heroes fraud

2. Grantham man sent for trial accused of stabbing teenager

Bristol Crown Court:

1. Former Arsenal footballer and friend cleared of raping teenager in Bristol

Norwich Crown Court:

1. Former EastEnders actor Joseph Shade, from Sheringham, to be sentenced after admitting sexual offences against three girls

2. Downham Market woman denies threatening someone with a samurai sword

Southwark Crown Court:

1. Tesco whistleblower commissioned report on scale of profit hole, court hears

2. ‘She was tragically taken from us’: Family’s heartbreaking tribute to ‘loving’ grandmother killed in bus collision

3. Tesco whistleblower tells of mounting anxieties over accounts gap

Lewes Crown Court:

1. Hairdresser accused of ‘cynical and deliberate’ campaign to infect lovers with HIV

2. Nurse jailed for causing death of ‘much-loved’ mum