Court Update UK, November 6

Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court):

1. Westminster councillors launch petition to stop police cuts

2. This is war! Zuma, Gupta bots target UK enemy #1: Peter Hain, campaigner for SA justice

Royal Courts of Justice:

1. Flashback: Land sale controversy, two budgies saved from flames and vandals attack a bus

2. Ex-British PM Gordon Brown says U.S. lied about Iraq having WMDs

Leeds Crown Court:

1. Underwear left in Leeds garden by burglar

Sheffield Crown Court:

1. Rapist who attacked mum in her own bed while baby slept has jail term cut

Cardiff Crown Court:

1. Matthew Scully-Hicks guilty of murdering 18-month-old adopted daughter

York Crown Court:

1. Burglars were caught out by CCTV camera operators

Inner London Crown Court:

1. Farnham man who smuggled guns and 300 rounds of ammunition across London has jail sentence increased

2. Mother of man stabbed to death in south London street calls for more police action on knives

Stafford Crown Court:

1. This human trafficker forced Vietnamese women to work in a nail bar

Newcastle Crown Court:

1. Sex trafficker attacked in prison after fellow lags find out she provided vulnerable girls to Newcastle grooming gang, dad reveals

2. Despicable dad put pepper in young son’s eyes during horrific campaign of abuse

Manchester Crown Court:

1. Takeaway worker stabbed in head outside chippy on Curry Mile can’t smile following attack

2. Burglar who mowed down and killed ex Navy officer Mike Samwell considers appealing murder conviction

3. Sick paedo told boys aged under 10 ‘don’t grass, it’s not illegal’ while performing vile sex acts in front of them

Birmingham Crown Court:

1. Four due in court over far-right group stickers

2. On-the-run paedophile arrested – and will be sent to prison