The Darlington stepdad of Charlie Roberts who suffered fatal head injuries when he was in his sole care is due to be sentenced today.

Notorious criminals who dodge their sentencing hearings could be dragged into the dock using “reasonable force” with the ...

Exclusive: The UN special rapporteur on torture has warned the British government is ‘very likely’ breaching IPP prisoners’ ...

A further three motorists have been sentenced in court after a drink drive crackdown in Northamptonshire over Christmas.

Two men have been convicted for conspiring to facilitate the illegal immigration of migrants – including eight children - into the UK who were hidden in the back of a lorry. Daniel Loughran, 34, and ...

A man, who was found guilty of murdering his mother, has today been handed a life sentence. Anarlyn Jones, 27, of Jacaranda ...

This week in Yorkshire courts, a father was jailed for murdering his daughter, a rapist who fled across the country was sentenced, and a rioter who attacked police during summer violence was ...

A couple who relished their relationship of “sado-masochistic violence” killed a woman in a “premeditated blood-thirsty murder” and dumped her dismembered body in a park, the Old Bailey has heard.

A man has been sentenced after smuggling hundreds of endangered European eels into Wales from Dublin. Kevin Forbes, from ...