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A benefit cheat claimed more than £40,000 when he had tens of thousands of pounds in the bank, a court heard.
A robber who stabbed a brave fish and chip shop owner after he refused to hand over the day’s takings has been jailed for seven years.
A mum driving along with her two children was shocked to see a naked man performing a sex act at the side of the road.
A father who played a fixed odds machine at a betting shop with cash stolen in a robbery the day before has escaped being locked up.
The owner of a successful tropical fish business has narrowly avoided jail after he was caught fraudulently claiming more than £24,000 in benefits.
A sexual predator who trapped a vulnerable teenager in his car and raped her after she went to buy cannabis from him has been jailed for eight years.
A robber who carried out a crime spree on trains - threatening victims to hand over cash or face violence - has been jailed.
Judges, barristers and court staff paid tribute to popular judge Antony Balston, who has died.
An award-winning journalist who helped expose the MPs' expenses scandal has had his sentence increased for a "monstrous" rape.
The four-star Menzies Welcombe Hotel Spa and Golf Club close to Stratford-upon-Avon is a Jacobean-style mansion.
An accounts employee has avoided jail after stealing more than £176,000 from her workplace - and blowing most of it on gambling.
A man who bit his ex's face and chomped on her fingers has been jailed for the "savage, disgusting and cowardly" attack.
A football coach and gym instructor was an 'opportunistic' sex predator who twice molested a young girl.
A teenager elbowed a woman in the face, snatched the baby she was holding and ran off, a court heard.
A young mother has walked free after supplying the drugs a promising student used to kill herself.
A former soldier who inflicted horrendous sexual abuse on five girls over a period of more than 30 years has been jailed for life.
A 32-year-old man has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison after he set fire to his girlfriend's home.
A predator who hitchhiked from his home in Somerset hoping to have sex with an eight-year-old girl has been jailed for 10 years.
A shameless thief snatched an elderly disabled woman's purse after sneaking into a residential home, and within days stole cash from a blind woman.
A rapist who “dominated, intimidated and humiliated” his victim has been jailed for 11 years.
