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A 39-year-old who was banned from contacting his ex-girlfriend and repeatedly messaged her in defiance of a court order has been jailed.
A heartless carer who teamed up with a colleague to steal more than £12,000 from an elderly couple with dementia has been spared jail.
A prison guard who smuggled mobile phones and related paraphernalia into a jail hidden inside a DVD player has been warned he faces being locked up.
A crook who pocketed almost £1million from supplying cocaine and cannabis has been ordered to repay a fraction of his ill-gotten gains.
A “predatory” former police officer posed as a girl to have sexually explicit chats with children he believed to be as young as eight.
A teenager locked up for an "extremely violent" stranger sex attack faces more time behind bars for downloading and sharing child abuse images.
A man alleged to have torched a car after it knocked down a police officer in a suspected hit-and-run no longer faces trial.
A man who scalded his girlfriend with boiling water claimed her burns resulted from tripping over a kettle cable.
Three thugs who left one victim with a wound down to bone have been locked up after a terrifying night of violence.
A 29-year-old Kent man is one of three people to be jailed after his role in a drugs ring which operated during the coronavirus pandemic.
A pair have been convicted of wounding a waiter near a train station, after a trial in which they pinned the fault on each other.
A man on trial accused of a joint knife attack on a waiter claims he only gave chase after a ‘misunderstanding’ over a missing phone.
A gambler who robbed a pharmacy of around £100 after losing more than 10 times that amount has escaped jail.
A Burger King employee accused of repeatedly stabbing a waiter in an alley has blamed his sister’s boyfriend for the violence.
An NHS worker sold a 'chemsex' drug to friends during what was said to be a "dark time" in his life both professionally and personally.
A duo on trial for stabbing a waiter on his way home from work did not have "a care in the world" as they discussed the victim’s potential fate.
A convicted paedophile sexually assaulted a young girl he met at a restaurant following an earlier sentence for child abuse offences.
A man described as "ranting and raving" after fatally knifing a pensioner has been convicted of manslaughter.
A woman waiting for a train was subjected to a distressing and alarming ordeal when a man followed her, touched her and simulated a sex act.
A "trivial" beer can throw led to a middle-aged man being chased from a railway station and repeatedly stabbed in a vicious assault.
