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Following a six-week trial at Leicester Crown Court, Bowes was convicted on 18 November of ten counts of rape, eight counts of actual bodily harm (ABH), two counts of coercive or controlling ...
Ben Oliver, 25, killed his grandfather in a ‘ferocious’ attack while the pensioner was in bed.
However, as the number of court cases in Leicester grew, it became necessary to commission a more substantial courthouse for criminal court hearings. The site selected by the Lord Chancellor's Department had accommodated a series of rows of terraced housing (Slawson Street, Ashwell Street and Elton Street) before the area was cleared.
Colin Pitchfork (born 23 March 1960) is an English child-murderer and child-rapist. He was the first person convicted of rape and murder using DNA profiling after he murdered two girls in neighbouring Leicestershire villages: Lynda Mann in Narborough in November 1983 and Dawn Ashworth in Enderby in July 1986.
Sentencing in England and Wales refers to a bench of magistrates or district judge in a magistrate's court or a judge in the Crown Court passing sentence on a person found guilty of a criminal offence. In deciding the sentence, the court will take into account a number of factors: the type of offence and how serious it is, the timing of any ...
“Cult mom” Lori Vallow has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole for the murders of her two children in a dramatic case that gripped the nation. Vallow, 50, was convicted in May of ...
The court dropped its proceedings against the eleven arrested. [5] Over the course of the trial, the defendants caused disruption by refusing to leave the witness stand and speaking out of turn. [7] By the end of the trial, four of the five defendants had been remanded to custody after police were called to court seven times to make arrests. [9]
Sarah Boone, the woman recently found guilty of murdering her boyfriend in 2020 by suffocating him in a suitcase, will be sentenced in an Orlando courtroom on Monday and faces up to life in prison.