A man has been sentenced to 24 years in jail after he changed his plea and admitted the brutal abduction, torture and killing of a 54 year old man from Liverpool.

Malcolm Lockwood (55) has been sentenced to 14 years and six months today at Leeds Crown Court. Lockwood was found guilty by a jury in November 2018 of three counts of rape, one count of sexual assault, one count of kidnap, one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of making threats to kill.

Kirk Starzyk was yesterday (17 January) sentenced at Grimsby Crown Court to 12 years in prison. A jury found him guilty of wounding with intent which left the victim with life-changing injuries she described as being ‘like a shark attack.’

Darren Barnes, 48, has today (16 January) been convicted of murder for killing Edwin Bradley, 65, on the 2 July 2018. Barnes was found guilty at Wolverhampton Crown Court following trial.

A 38-year-old man has today (16 January) been convicted of the murders of Paul Massey and John Kinsella who were shot dead in separate incidents almost three years apart in a gangland feud.

Two men have been jailed today (15 January) after killing a man when he assaulted one of them for throwing a drink over his girlfriend.

Madni Ahmed (20) has today been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 36 years. He was found guilty of murder following trial on the 10 January 2019 at Birmingham Crown Court.

A twenty-year-old man has been sentenced for affray as part of an attack that led to the murder of a man who was out celebrating his 21st birthday in Liverpool.

A man who deliberately drove his car into customers at a nightclub, injuring eight people, has been convicted of attempted murder.

How the CPS and the police brought a killer to justice in a landmark case is the subject of a compelling documentary broadcast yesterday and now available on the BBC iPlayer.