A police officer stripped off his uniform and raped the alleged victim of an attempted burglary in her home, a court has heard. Sergeant David Stansbury (pictured) abused his position
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The sentencing of a woman convicted of harming a child with laxatives, which affected his development, has been deferred so a psychiatric report about her can be prepared. Tracy Menhinick,
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The first person in England and Wales to be convicted of a cyber-flashing offence has been jailed for 66 weeks. Nicholas Hawkes was convicted under the Online Safety Act after
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A mother accused of murdering her three-year-old son subjected him to a “campaign of violence and cruelty”, jurors have been told. Christina Robinson, 30, is on trial for murdering her
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The Sentencing Council has introduced a new mitigating factor for pregnancy and maternity, under which judges will consider the impact of sentences on pregnant or postnatal offenders. Mitigating factors, like
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Seven men have been jailed following a protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Merseyside. Thomas Mills, 47, Brian McPadden, 61, Paul Lafferty, 42, and Jonjo O’Donoghue, 21, were
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A “controlling and coercive” father who shook his three-month-old daughter, causing her un-survivable head injuries, has been jailed for 14 years. Samuel Warnock, 29, of Devizes in Wiltshire, previously pleaded
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A priest who led an evangelical movement in the 1980s and 1990s has appeared in court to face multiple allegations of sexual offences against former members of a church congregation.
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Two Albanian nationals who used a plane to illegally transport economic migrants from northern France to an aerodrome in Essex have been found guilty of people smuggling. Myrteza Hilaj, 50,
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A 20-year-old man has been found guilty of the “brazen” rape of a 15-year-old girl after he took her out of her depth in the sea off Bournemouth beach on
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