Court Update UK, November 15

Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court):

1. Trainee primary school teacher who tried to have sex with a 14-year-old boy he met on dating app Grindr is spared jail as ‘sympathetic’ judge says: ‘You succumbed to temptation’

2. Jamie Simmons Knockholt murder trial set for April

3. Ilford shooting: Men guilty of murdering Abdi are jailed for life

Leeds Crown Court:

1. Who is William Cornick? Leeds teen whose murder of Spanish teacher Ann Maguire is subject of a new inquest

2. Paedophile who was snared by vigilantes as he tried to meet a ‘12-year-old girl’ for sex after asking to see her naked is jailed for more than three years

Norwich Crown Court:

1. Norwich wake cake-thief has jail term cut

Cardiff Crown Court:

1. Disabled man battered by his neighbour in a row over a noisy dog dies after two years in a coma

2. Man dragged barefoot from his home and brutally beaten dies after two years in a coma

Manchester Crown Court:

1. Controversial kitchen trader Vance Miller ordered to pay more than £2.3m or risk eight years in prison

2. Husband charged with murder of mum-of-three Elizabeth Merriman, who was found stabbed to death in Rochdale

York Crown Court:

1. Man appears in court charged with alleged rape dating back nearly 30 years

2. Former company director had more than 11,000 indecent images of children

Birmingham Crown Court:

1. Arms dealer sold guns and home-made bullets linked to more than 100 crimes including teenager’s murder

2. Dil Bahadur Subedi: Police not to blame for hit-and-run crash after 110mph chase

Liverpool Crown Court:

1. Brave mum fights off homeless robber in front of 4-year-old daughter

2. Daniel Fox murder trial jury ask to see knife that killed him

Lewes Crown Court:

1. Brothers left for dead in attack, court is told

2. ‘I didn’t mean to kill him’ murder accused tells jury

Bristol Crown Court:

1. Rating tells court he was groped by senior officer aboard ship

2. Dad went shopping in Cribbs Causeway with cloned bank cards