Court Update UK, 10th April

Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court):

1. Former Gurkha spared jail after knocking Labour peer off mobility scooter and killing him on zebra crossing

2. Man accused of being member of banned group National Action appears at Old Bailey

Leeds Crown Court:

1. Third man in court over ‘kidnapping where victim had boiling water poured over his scrotum’

York Crown Court:

1. York’s first business rate fraud case leads to a suspended sentence

Birmingham Crown Court:

1. Jury retires in soldiers’ neo-Nazi group membership trial

Ipswich Crown Court:

1. Shop stripped of alcohol licence – weeks after illegal tobacco sentence

Warwick Crown Court:

1. Woman came face-to-face with burglar – in her bedroom

Newcastle Crown Court:

1. Female children’s home worker allegedly had sex in her marital bed with boy in her care

2. Children’s care home worker ‘indecently assaulted a teenager in his bedroom, during day trips and had sex with him at her home’

Liverpool Crown Court:

1. Man who had £17,000 cannabis farm in his home spared jail

2. The messages that show Southport knew straight away who murdered Cassie Hayes

3. ‘He’s an evil coward’: Killer jailed for life for executing travel agent in work after she began dating his ex

Cardiff Crown Court:

1. Devoted dad died after a Cardiff Bus drove into the back of his motorbike

2. Drug dealer’s girlfriend gave away ‘extravagant lifestyle’ by posting holiday snaps on Instagram

Bristol Crown Court:

1. Bristol choirmaster who appeared on BBC’s Songs of Praise jailed for sexually abusing two young boys

2. Ex choirmaster “robbed abuse victims of childhood”