Court Update UK, October 17

Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court):

1. Illegal immigrant beat fellow Colnbrook Centre detainee to death after taking former ‘legal high’ Spice for the first time

2. Three to stand trial over selling diet pills that killed Shrewsbury student Eloise Parry

3. The last ever episode of Inspector George Gently finally has an air date

Edinburgh Sheriff Court:

1. Man charged over Edinburgh indecent assault

2. Boy, 17, charged with assaulting young woman in flat

Aylesbury Crown Court:

1. Milton Keynes man sentenced for drugs and firearms offences

Inner London Crown Court:

1. Prisoner on home leave robbed Kirton store at knife-point

Stafford  Crown Court:

1. Burton man escapes immediate jail sentence after using fraudulent cheques

Truro Crown Court:

1. Police say it was lucky no one was hurt in ‘planned gas explosion’ at Helston Cricket Club as Jamie Borrett is sentenced t

2. Drivers who kill to face life prison sentences in changes to the law

Leeds Crown Court;

1. Teen locked up for vicious street robbery in Huddersfield town centre

2. Leeds mum claimed £85,000 in benefits for disabled son for six years after he died

3. Watch your step – Falls from height not just an issue for the construction industry

Sheffield Crown Court:

1. Watch your step – Falls from height not just an issue for the construction industry

Warwick Crown Court:

1. The ‘farcical’ reason a drug dealer gave when police found crack cocaine and heroin on him

Ipswich Crown Court:

1. Court told alleged rape victim had ‘fantasised about having sex with a stranger’

2. Man who dressed up and raped disabled woman at Suffolk care home jailed for 18 years

Birmingham Crown Court:

1. Cambridge scientist used Gumtree to target and blackmail children, court hears as he is labelled one of UK’s worst sex offenders

2. Judges turn down bid to get driving ban lifted

3. ‘Dangerous’ thug who dragged 92-year-old woman to the floor during spate of terrifying city centre robberies is jailed

Newcastle Crown Court:

1. Benwell pervert jailed after being caught by undercover cop trying to meet girl for sex

2. ‘Where do broken hearts go?’ Mum woken by horror crash found teen DAUGHTER dying outside