Courts

A reckless drink driver who was captured on dash cam crashing his car and plotting to report a fake car theft and crash has been banned for a year.

A senior officer spoke of the ‘challenging elements’ of an attempted murder case – in which a 16-year-old carved the letter ‘A’ on his victim’s torso.

A 16-year-old boy who carved an 'A' onto his victim's torso when he tried to murder a youth of the same age was sentenced to 11 years in custody.

A paedophile faces a lengthy jail sentence after he was convicted of sex offences against two children today.

A man who put the lives of a mum and her two children at risk when he threw a petrol bomb at his neighbour's home was jailed for more than four years.

A man has denied a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm following an alleged fight in a pub.

A man on trial for sex offences against two children admitted having an addiction to pornography - but denied it led him to take risks.

A judge will re-sentence a 26-year-old who is being held in prison.

A man who denies historic sex offences against two children will go on trial in June.

A disqualified driver who deliberately reversed into a police car several times causing thousands of pounds of damage has been sentenced.

A woman has been banned from keeping all animals for five years - after her dog suffered from a number of health issues.

A man on trial for sex offences against two children denied all the allegations, a court heard.

Eleven suspects have been charged with drug offences after a series of warrants were executed.

Police have released an image of a man they want to speak to regarding an incident of racial abuse.

A girl drew a picture of a man who is alleged to have abused her to help process what had happened, a court heard.

A boy who was allegedly abused by a man told a school friend that he had been raped, a court was told.

A gamekeeper has been ordered to pay up more than £7,000 for offences linked to bird poisoning and illegal traps.

A man is due to stand trial on two counts of dangerous dog charges.

An Albanian man was caught with cannabis valued at over £34,000 after police stopped a car which claimed to have got lost in south Lincolnshire.

A shopkeeper who sold illegal cigarettes in three counties has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and ordered to pay £20,000 in costs.