18 h. ago 'Drug smuggling' Brit teen sobs in court claiming she was ‘tortured and forced’

Bella Culley told the court: "All I wanted to do was to travel and this happened to me. I’m clean - I had nothing in my blood test. I wanted to make my family proud."

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19 h. ago Granddaughter speaks of how Louisa Dunne’s murder cast shadow over family

Mary Dainton told Bristol Crown Court in a victim impact statement how her mother never recovered from circumstances of her own mother’s murder.

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4 d. ago Kitchen fitter sues customer for libel after being branded 'worst I have ever seen' and an 'absolute joke' in online review

Joiner Benjamin Johnson has resorted to the High Court after Stephen Helm allegedly told others to 'avoid' him. Mr Johnson claims customers cancelled scheduled jobs after seeing the post.

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4 d. ago Driver, 20, who inhaled laughing gas moments before he hit and killed cyclist, 81, on pedestrian crossing faces a 'very long time in jail'

Cain Byrne, 20, smashed into Graham Slinn, 81, as he walked across the A57 near Todwick, South Yorkshire beside his bicycle, prosecutor Laura Marshall told Sheffield Crown Court.

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4 d. ago ‘Appalling’ driver who killed pensioner on crossing was inhaling nitrous oxide, court told

Witnesses said Cain Byrne, who has never held a driving licence, made no attempt to stop at the crossing

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5 d. ago "I'm in fear for my family's life": Murder trial hears call to police

The prison officer and dad-of-three had been "murdered as an act of retaliation", the court has been told

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5 d. ago No ‘safe number of times’ footballers can head ball, High Court told

The claimants include the family of former England midfielder Norbert ‘Nobby’ Stiles, who died in 2020 after suffering from dementia.

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5 d. ago Man beat elderly neighbour to death in argument over shutting gate

The confrontation lasted less than 90 seconds, a court was told

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5 d. ago Judge wants all sides to work towards November trial date for Donaldsons

A previous court hearing had been told that there had been a deterioration in the medical condition of Eleanor Donaldson.

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6 d. ago Three men 'who raped teenager in Rotherham' told her 'this is what white girls are for', court hears

Prosecutor Andrew Bailey told Sheffield Crown Court today the girl, now in her late 30s, was raped by Hussain, Kessur Ajaib and Mohammed Makhmood between 1999 and 2002.

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6 d. ago Prisoner who stabbed child killer Roy Whiting told nurses he did it to get taken off the wing, court hears

Andrew Light, 45, complained he 'disliked being among nonces' on D-Wing of HMP Wakefield.

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6 d. ago Angry boyfriend went on racist tirade after finding out his girlfriend broke rules of their open relationship by sleeping with black man, court told

Christopher Dalby, 47, has now pleaded guilty at Southampton Crown Court to racially aggravated intentional harassment.

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6 d. ago Trial of High Court claims against Andrew Tate brought forward to next summer

Tate’s barristers told an earlier court hearing that there was ‘total denial of wrongdoing’.

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6 d. ago Murder accused insists he was 'watching Finding Nemo' when ex's boyfriend died

John Belfield, 31, denies being one of three men who ambushed Thomas Campbell at his home and told a court that he was at home with his daughter and nieces watching Finding Nemo

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7 d. ago Watchdog acted ‘irrationally’ in registering private gender clinic, court told

Two women are challenging the Care Quality Commission’s decision to register the Gender Plus Hormone Clinic in Birmingham.

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7 d. ago Top civil servant told to ‘get on it’ after Supreme Court ruling on gender

Michelle Thomson MSP challenged permanent secretary Joe Griffin on the issue at Holyrood’s Finance and Public Administration Committee.

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7 d. ago Prisoner stabbed killer Roy Whiting saying 'that is for Sarah Payne', court told

Wakefield prison officer Alex Dyson was the first at the scene when Andrew Light attacked Sarah Payne killer Roy Whiting, hearing a faint cry for help coming from D wing

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7 d. ago Crufts gundog trainer allowed three dogs to bake to death after leaving them in Land Rover for seven hours on hot summer day, court told

Andrew Claridge-Fleming, 57, abandoned the dogs in crates in his Land Rover Discovery at a farm in Hampshire - and has now admitted causing unnecessary suffering.

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8 d. ago Dad thought he was stood up by his son – but the truth would change him forever

Luke McAuliffe, 19, was due to get a train some time afterwards and meet his father Alan at Dundalk railway station in County Louth, the coroner's court was told

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8 d. ago Girlfriend of murder victim sent naked video to the man 'who tortured and killed her boyfriend just days later', court told

John Belfield, 31, said he responded by sending a screenshot of Demi-Lee Driver's clip to Thomas Campbell - but insisted he 'did not want any trouble'.

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