Court Update UK, February 28

Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court):

1. ‘Senior member’ of English Defence League jailed for sexually abusing 10-year-old girl

2. ‘Frenzied’ Cambridge knife attacker returned to jail

Royal Courts of Justice:

1. Government must rewrite illegal sections of Snoopers’ Charter, court told

Leeds Crown Court:

1. ‘Unaccompanied Minor’ Jailed for Raping Pregnant Woman at Knifepoint

2. Aryan Rashidi has been jailed for 14 years and seven months at Leeds Crown Court.

Truro Crown Court:

1. Drug dealer caught with more than £10,000 worth of super strength cocaine

2. Mum who allegedly poisoned baby daughter ‘laughed in hospital as if nothing happened’, court told

York Crown Court:

1. Man jailed for hot tub sex attack

Bristol Crown Court:

1. New Zealand v England: Mark Wood trains before second ODI

2. Bristol Somali community condemn ‘barbaric’ FGM but fear abuse and harassment after case collapses

Norwich Crown Court:

1. Man who admitted to possessing cocaine has sentencing postponed

2. Man who tried to abduct child in King’s Lynn handed community order

Liverpool Crown Court:

1. Young mum tried to smuggle phones, crack cocaine, and Spice into prison

2. Flats torched by arsonist in Widnes to be brought back ‘as soon as possible’

Stafford Crown Court:

1. Rogue builder who cost customers £200,000 jailed for five years

2. Man behind this crash was sex offender who gave false name to police

Cambridge Crown Court:

1. Convicted sex attacker knifed his partner in the throat five times

2. Child sex offender scaled prison wall at HMP Peterborough

Manchester Crown Court:

1. Man thought neighbour had been slapped before realising he had been stabbed in the neck, court hears

2. The secret stockpile of deadly weapons recovered from a gas engineer’s home