A controlling and violent man who falsely claimed his partner had fallen down the stairs to conceal his role in her death has been convicted of her murder.

A woman has been jailed for causing the death of her terminally ill partner of 37 years after attacking him on New Year’s Eve.

A director of a care home agency based in East Sussex who repeatedly employed immigrants with no right to work in the UK has been jailed today.

Five men have been sentenced to a total of five years for their roles in running a vehicle “chop shop” in Surrey with the stolen vehicles and parts estimated to be worth around £750,000.

Karl Sharples, 38, and Mark Whitworth, 57, were previously found guilty of a total of 66 sexual offences against children as young as seven and eight.

A Durham woman whose infant son drowned unsupervised in the bath while she played a video game on her mobile phone has been jailed today after pleading guilty to gross negligence manslaughter at Teesside Crown Court.