Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced crown court judges will be sitting for a record number of days in the next financial year (Ben Whitley/PA) Crown court judges will sit for a record ...

HERE ARE THE LATEST CASES FROM STOKE-ON-TRENT CROWN COURT: PENKHULL: Sex offender Wayne Sandford breached his court order - after failing to tell police he'd moved house and having a Facebook ...

Crown court judges will sit for a collective 110,000 days - a ‘record’ high – in a bid to combat the increasing court backlog, the government announced today. The announcement adds 4,000 ...

Crown court judges will sit for a record number of days in the next financial year as part of Government efforts to tackle the backlog of cases. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said judges will ...

The case was adjourned until March 21 for a further case management hearing at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court. Both defendants were bailed. BUCKNALL: Fifty-eight-year-old Shaun Smith, of Bond Street ...

The 18-carat gold toilet, titled America, weighed approximately 98kg and had been insured for the price of $6m (£4.75 m), the prosecution told Oxford Crown Court. The gold in itself was believed ...

Murder accused Donald Excell appeared at Lewes Crown Court today where he spoke only to confirm his name. The 48-year-old was not asked to enter a plea. He will be tried in August this year.

Miss Mitchell had been with friends walking towards a skate park in Ipswich when they saw Burnett coming towards them. They started running away but the 27-year-old, of All Saints Road in the ...

Williams is due to attend a plea hearing at the crown court in Middlesbrough on April 3. He has been granted unconditional bail until then. For daily news from Teesside's courts direct to your ...