A porn merchant who was caught with a mass of obscene
material at a shop he was running escaped jail today (fri)
when a judge fined him.
Last year Judge Andrew Brooks had given 24-year-old
A deranged daughter who launched a vicious knife attack on
her adoptive mother was today (Friday) sent to a secure mental
hospital.
Joanna Zinkin, 24, plunged a kitchen knife into Mrs Maureen
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A plumber investigating a leak found a 'sophisticated'
cannabis factory in a north London flat, a court heard today
(fri).
Every room in the two bedroom flat had been 'rigged up'
to grow a gar
A leading QC prosecuting in a pnds stlg 650,000 fraud case
had his opening rudely interrupted by fire alarm today. (Fri)
Counsel Mr David Farrell, QC, was re-assured by staff at
Southwark Cr
A Rochdale solicitor who delayed signing title deeds and
failed to write to another law firm following a substantial
mortgage transaction was reprimanded today (Thurs).
Thomas McManus, 44, w
A master farrier who lied to police after crashing his
girlfriend's car at the end of a night out has been jailed for
two months.
Ian Crossley, 28, later claimed he had made up the story to
A vicious thug who subjected a teenage girl to a terrifying
sex ordeal while on home leave from a prison sentence has been
jailed for four years for the attack.
Old Bailey judge, Gerald Gordon
A dangerous 'lunatic' who sexually assaulted an
83-year-old woman before kicking her unconscious in a crowded
chemist's shop walked free from court today (Thursday)
because of a loophole in the
A tiddly divorcee who fell into a Sleeping Beauty type slumber
after a couple of drinks, awoke to find a casual acquaintance in her
bed and having sex with her, a court heard.
Mrs X's almost
