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A boss of a tyre firm has been acquitted of failing in his duty over the death of a tyre fitter.
The Health and Safety Executive has been criticised after it took 10 years to bring a case to court following a tyre fitter's death.
A rapist who attacked a schoolgirl who had gone trick or treating was finally caught... by evidence from a single sperm.
A former prison officer who thought he had escaped justice for a sex attack on a schoolgirl in the 1980s has been sent to jail.
The second of two Christmas Day rapists has been given a lengthy jail sentence - after a "painstaking" police investigation.
A ferry company worker was dealt two years imprisonment after stealing £20,000 by faking vital documents and implicating colleagues.
A former soldier who molested three children - one as young as five - and then tried to claim they were lying about the abuse has been locked up.
A driver who killed his fiancee, her mother and a popular Kent father in a horror crash after a "momentary lapse of attention" has avoided jail.
A company boss has gone on trial over the death 10 years ago of a 21-year-old fitter, who died when an exploding tyre threw him 30ft.
A youngster needed hospital treatment after a teenager attacked him with a meat cleaver in a clash over a "stolen" bike.
A protester involved in violent demonstrations had to be led away by security guards after shouting to friends and arguing with a judge in court.
A woman dubbed a "cunning and imaginative" fraudster is behind bars after dishonestly pocketing £61,000 in claims.
A top official at a ferry company has appeared in court, after allegedly taking fares from passengers and keeping the cash.
A female robber, who sports a tattoo on her chest which reads “Only God Can Judge Me”, has been jailed by a judge.
A man who attacked his girlfriend and threatened to kill her blamed his violence on the stroke pills he was taking.
A burglar has been jailed for three years after a raid on the home of a titled lady went wrong.
A flasher, who exposed himself to schoolgirls at bus stops, has been given therapy to beat his sex offending.
A drunk woman wearing just her underwear hurled racist abuse at a police officer and bit him until he bled as he tried to remove her from a hotel.
A speeding driver has today been jailed for killing an 82-year-old man who died when his classic car was ploughed into in a busy high street.
Three men burst into a flat armed with a catapult to collect an outstanding drugs debt, a court has heard.
