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Nurse who set off fire alarm to see colleague's breasts bounce as she ran down the corridor is facing end of his career
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Sobbing defendant: I didn't mean to do it mate. Magistrate: Don't call me 'mate'. Defendant: I'm sorry, your Majesty.
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Transgender activist Sarah Jane Baker appeared in court today and was remanded in custody at a men's prison. Baker allegedly told a crowd at the Trans+ Pride rally in Westminster: 'If you see a TERF, punch them in the f****** face.'
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Black law student Suhel Ali who called England star Bukayo Saka a ‘monkey’ a 'n*****' and a 'black piece of s***' is let off because he ‘was not intending to be racist’
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Jurors in the Essex lorry deaths trial had to be issued a warning by the judge to ignore commentary from 'politicians and pundits' after Home Secretary Priti Patel tweeted in the middle of the trial that the tragedy had been caused by 'ruthless criminals.'.
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A homeless man has been charged with ‘leaving the place you were living, namely no fixed address’ during lockdown. The judge is questioning the decision but CPS are determined it will go to trial.
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The 14-year-old schoolboy killed by the swordsman in yesterday’s attack in Hainault has been named as Daniel Anjorin. A 36-year-old man remains in custody after being arrested on suspicion of murder.
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Insulate Britain activist Louise Lancaster was jailed for five weeks for obstructing traffic in the City of London. Judge Silas Reid had also found the Grantchester based teacher guilty of contempt after she lectured the jury on climate change despite being warned not to do so.
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Sad to hear of the death of barrister Desmond de Silva at 78. His best anecdote -.de Silva (to defendant) Now, your account. Defendant: Who are you calling a c*nt, you fat bastard?.
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MP Claudia Webb has lost her appeal against harassment conviction
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England star Mason Mount was victim of party stalker who targeted two other Chelsea players
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Former GCHQ worker Hasaan Arshad took his phone into a top secret area and transferred data from a computer before transferring it to his home PC. He really doesn't like having his picture taken.
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A troll who threatened to kill JK Rowling 'with a big hammer' has been warned he faces jail. Glenn Mullen, 31, sent terrifying audio messages in Scottish Gaelic to the Harry Potter author and Labour MP Rosie Duffield on X, formerly Twitter, on 19 January last year.
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Chelsea season ticket holder who made 13 Nazi salutes at Spurs fans claimed he was just waving to his mates.
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Former Manchester Labour councillor Carl Ollerhead, who said that males have a right to access women's and girls' toilets has been charged with indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 16.
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The cabinet secretary's remarks were branded 'unhelpful to say the least, and a lot more could be said' by a leading QC on the case in court. Under the Contempt of Court Act, publishing comments which substantially risk prejudicing a jury once proceedings are active is unlawful.
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Striking barrister Shauna Ritchie gives her reasons for striking outside the Old Bailey. 'The criminal justice system is crumbling as a lack of investment has brought the courts to its knees.'
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Here's Wandsworth Prison officer Linda De Sousa Abreu leaving Uxbridge Mags just now on bail. She is subject to a daily curfew between 7pm and 9am and has surrendered her Portuguese passport to police. She faces a plea and trial prep hearing at Isleworth CC on 29 July.
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Teenager shouts 'Suck your Mum!’ at prosecutor as he is convicted of GBH.
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Blue star Lee Ryan did a 'Blazing Saddles' when he took the oath in court today and said: ' I swear by almighty God insert deity here.’ His barrister explained earlier that the singer 'struggles to grasp things'.
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Council boss bought dildo with Grenfell Towers survivor's money
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Businessman Simon Dolan is trying to block the government enforcing new restrictions. His lawyer tells the High Court: Deaths are 2-3% of total, considerably lower than the flu. The gov prioritises only suppression of the virus. It has an obligation to weigh all harms.
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Illegal immigrant who swindled £60,000 hotel stay claiming he was living in Grenfell Tower has case adjourned for 'Grenfell Trauma' psychology report' - even though he has never lived there.
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Rapist walks free after judge says 12-year old victim was ‘sexualised’
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Non-appearance of a homeless man accused of begging. Prosecution insists on a warrant for his arrest. District judge Michael Snow replies: 'Are you sure you want me to issue a warrant for a non-imprisonable offence? Let's think of all the money we're wasting.'.
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Corrupt Lloyds Bank employee Simran Mann exposed elderly customers to losses worth nearly £1.5m by releasing their account details to a fraudster. She wept as she was jailed for 12 months.
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Grime star CBiz walks free from court after case that he ordered a machine gun murder in revenge over the theft of his jewellery falls apart.
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Here are those voyeurs who hid in mixed gender changing rooms at swimming pools to secretly film up to 6000 young women getting undressed. Adam Dennis, 39, and Robert Morgan, 33, ‘hunted’ for teenage girls and made catalogues of their pictures to share and trade online.
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Two police officers posed as a wealthy couple in Mayfair to snare a team of Rolex rippers
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Here's homeless Kurdish refugee Brwa Shorsh trying to push a postie to his death on the Tube tracks for ‘giving him a dirty look’
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Doctor who claimed £12,000 in housing benefit for a flat that didn’t even exist walked free from court after a judge said he did a ‘stupid and dishonest thing’. Nigerian Olubunmi Adeagbo-Sheikh, 41, made the sham claim while training to work as a medic in the UK.
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Chelsea fan who did Nazi salute 13 times in 15 minutes at Spurs fans claims he didn't know what it meant, and had never seen it done before.
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Rick Prior, Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, brands the prosecution of PC Perry Lathwood 'yet another IOPC led, politically motivated witch-hunt against a decent officer.'
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Defendant explains to court that 'loooooool' means laughing harder than just 'lol'.
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Daniel Ellsberg - known for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, revealing the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations had misled the public - is about to give evidence in Julian Assange’s extradition hearing. He can be heard but not seen by the court.
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Barrister: My client is suffering PTSD because his family were involved in the Grenfell fire. Judge: It's hard to see why someone suffering PTSD from a fire would go armed with petrol to set a fire through a letterbox.
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Nine 'Black Lives Matters' protesters in court over 'racist climate change' demo. None are black.
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Wandsworth prison officer Linda De Sousa Abreu is due to appear in court today charged with misconduct after she was allegedly filmed having sex with an inmate. Linda, 30, was arrested on Friday after the clip was shared on social media.
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Mark Duggan’s rapper son gets five years for possessing firearm
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Rebekah Vardy apologises in court documents for her description of Peter Andre's penis. She said: “Peter was tiny. The smallest trouser equipment I’ve ever seen. It was like a miniature chipolata.'.
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Dolan's lawyer tells High Court: London in Tier 2 will cause considerable economic damage so I can’t stress how important this hearing is. It’s difficult to see any other litigation before the courts that has as serious consequences to the country as this one.
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Judge Chris Hehir jailed the five Just Stop Oil protesters to a total of 21 years for causing 'massive disruption' on the M25. Ringleader Roger Hallam was locked up for five years. Supporters in court yelled 'We love you! 'You're on the right side of history!'
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A refugee is facing jail after he threatened to bomb the Home Office because officials did not process his paperwork quickly enough.
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Music producer Marcus Adepoju, who calls himself 'Menace to Society' is facing years in jail for attempting to shoot a man over a £3.50 drugs debt. He fired repeatedly through the man's window in Catford. Luckily he missed his target.
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Crooked human rights lawyer Philip Shiner walks free after making false allegations about British soldiers carrying out atrocities in Iraq so he could claim £3 million in legal aid
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Matthew Smith, a former deputy head of Thomas’s Preparatory School - Prince George and Princess Charlotte's first school - has been jailed for 12 years after he paid a teenager £65,000 to abuse children in India and send him footage of the attacks.
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Met firearms cop Martyn Blake, who shot Chris Kaba dead in Streatham, cleared of murder by Old Bailey jury of nine men and 3 women after some four hours deliberation.
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The terrorist emailed the Prime Minister's office threatening to 'wage jihad' in 2014. He was later given a job on the Crossrail project.
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A woman hid in the toilet of a Wetherspoon's pub and waited until staff had gone home to help herself to beer and sandwiches.
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A drunk C of E vicar screamed 'I'm from the Vatican, you're f*cked' as he brawled with police after nightclub binge of Biblical proportions.
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Judge asks defendant if he has anything to say. 'Am I getting out bruv' says hooded defendant. 'I am not your bruv' replies judge.
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Transgender gang attack Tube passenger after he tells them they are not real women 'because you don't have fannies'
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Barrister: 'My client had no idea these were cannabis plants' .Judge: ‘What did he think the 138 plants were? Very exotic ferns?’.
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Teenager Rakeem Thomas cleared of train sword attack on Kyran O’Shea-Deriggs by a jury who accepted he acted in self defence
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Here's predator Mohamed Iidow, facing years in jail for killing Natalie Shotter in horrific park bench assault
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Chris Kaba was a gang leader who had previous convictions dating to the age of 13. He was involved in the shooting of a rival gang member at a nightclub six days before he was gunned down by the police
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Terrorist tells judge he is going to 'wage jihad', and shouts 'target the civilians' while he is being sentenced at the Old Bailey.
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Saudi millionaire cleared of raping teen after claiming he accidentally penetrated her when he slipped and fell.
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Looks like that joke isn't funny any more. Here's the mug shot of TikTok prankster Bacari-Bronze O’Garro or ‘Mizzy’ who boasted the law was ‘weak’ - then got 18 weeks in jail
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Accountant Mohammed Nafees Ahmed, who was working for Walsall Housing Association, gloated about the October 7 attacks on Israel and said: 'If we have to we’ll take down the whole of UK from inside the country.’.
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Somali man accused of murdering his wife by setting her on fire is cleared by a jury after he explains she accidentally splashed the white spirit on herself, then set herself ablaze when she was cooking his porridge.
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A Barnet FC steward told the court he was 'terrified' when he was beaten with an inflatable shark: 'It was only my second football game'.
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Ex champion boxer Glen McCrory said his prosecution ‘should never have happened’ as he is cleared of assaulting three waitresses by touching their arms. The jury found one person can touch another without it being sexual. He was also accused of being overly familiar with them by
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Poisoned soup may have killed Russian whistleblower at his £3m estate in Surrey, court hears
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Joyrider kills two – cop chasing him has to stand trial, jury clear him in two hours
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Here's 17-year-old Joshua Alexander who bragged in a rap how he shot Lianne Gordon dead as she tried to protect her children. He was on bail for trying to murder a gang rival when he killed Lianne. Alexander was jailed for 29 years as Lianne's mother said he should be hanged.
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Court could not find interpreter for Bangladeshi dole fraudster (who has lived in here since 1969) yesterday because of Eid. Case delayed for a day, Cost? £30k.
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Two illegal immigrants lived in a luxury hotel for eight months after falsely claiming they were victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, a court heard.
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London bus driver Ozdemir Zia, 76, ran over and killed pensioner Edna McLean, who was crossing the road. He appeared in court using a hearing loop and assisted by a Turkish interpreter
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Here's Rida Kazem showing off in his Range Rover and crashing at 110mph, killing his passenger
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Accused burglar says to reporter, 'How sad must you be to come sit in other people's cases blood? You must be bored fam. Get a real job.'. Reporter replies, 'Sad, bored and poor. But not guilty.'.
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Jihadi nicknamed pipe bomb 'cake' in messages but his unwitting accomplice replied: 'cake? U mean the b o m b'.
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Water gushing from within the Old Bailey main entrance is slowly seeping its way down towards the press room. Please send sturdy wood and two of every animal.
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'Evil' is an overused word in crime reporting. But you have to think Judge Peter Rook was right when he said this of the Oxford grooming gang: 'The parents were made to feel powerless when their child became entangled in true evil.' Link should show full story
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Jurors shown jihadi group chat that goes: 'u on ur JSA ting today?' 'Nah its just wednesday.' 'Allah protect you from employment.'.
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Daniel Allan, 35, father of two from Sunderland has admitted kicking a sergeant in the back during protests on Saturday. He was later arrested thanks to his luminous shorts. He was remanded into custody and committed to Southwark Crown Court for sentence.
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Convicted machete murderer shouts at jury: 'No bruv, how can you find us all guilty bruv, tell me bruv, the fuck bruv, the fuck you think it's like bruv.' Judge interjects: 'I think you'll understand members of the jury, I see this quite often.'.
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Julian Assange’s extradition hearing today is listed downstairs at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to start at 3.45pm in court 7. It’s actually taking place at 10am in court 3. 🤔.
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Romanian labourer who stripped a grandmother naked before battering her to death with a wooden club embedded with nails now admits raping her. Valentin Lazar, 23, murdered Maria Rawlings, 45, after following her from the EL3 double decker in Romford on May 3, 2021.
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Terrorist tells judge who extended his sentence to a minimum of 21 years 'Already I serve for years. I have family that are waiting.' Judge tells him: 'I have another case waiting. Is there anything, briefly, you wish to add to what you just said?'.
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Solicitor defending a drug dealer caught with cannabis and cocaine: 'Since he's been in this country since 2018, he has always worked – albeit illegally.'.
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Julian Assange will be housed in conditions designed for 9/11 terrorists and could remain in a small cell for 23 hours a day for the rest of his life (the other hour he would spend in a different cell but still alone), US federal prison consultant Maureen Baird tells the hearing.
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Barrister: 'This defendant understands the seriousness of the offences.'.Judge: 'I'm not surprised. She is doing an MSc in Criminology.'.
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TikTok practical joker Mizzy boasted the law was ‘weak’ as he ignored a criminal behaviour order to continue his career as a prankster. But he failed to see the funny side this afternoon as he was locked up for 18 weeks.
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Outrageous scenes at the Old Bailey. A juror has been taken off a murder case because he cannot understand English. The court heard he got a fellow juror to write to the judge explaining he was unable to follow the language.
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When a probation officer told him Islam was 'peaceful and respectful', he replied: 'No. It is a religion of war.'.
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Man dressed as Heineken bottle wanted by police on Barry Island for stealing two pizzas
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Andy Banks ‘turned up to protect the statues but didn’t know what statues he was defending’ having downed 16 pints before urinating on PC Keith Palmer’s memorial.
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Grenfell Tower 'fraudster' was given £1.7k in cash and a new iphone after she appeared to be traumatised and 'teary.' After ten days at the Holland Park Hilton she suddenly became happier and started touting a designer handbag and a new hairstyle.
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Defendant asked why drugs were allegedly found 'in her private parts' and how they got there snaps back: 'Because I put them there to conceal them because you're not supposed to have class A drugs on the streets on London, obviously.'.
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