Prosecutors authorise charging Steve Wright with 1999 murder and attempted kidnapping

A man who murdered his lodger before dismembering and scattering his body around Bournemouth has been convicted – following a successful prosecution by the Crown Prosecution Service.

A woman from Newark has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her seriously ill mother-in-law by setting a fire in her home while she was asleep.

A fan who racially abused Kasey Palmer during a Championship match has received a five-year football ban.

Nursery worker Kate Roughley has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a nine-month-old baby in her care.

A teacher has today been found guilty of child sex offences against two pupils at the school where she worked.

Under the hate crime legislation, courts must treat offences more seriously where there is evidence that the offender demonstrated hostility on the basis of the victim’s actual or presumed race, religion, disability, transgender identity or sexual orientation, or the offence was motivated on the basis of hostility towards one of these characteristics.

A Stevenage man who stabbed a student to death on his prom night has been jailed for life today.

A serious and persistent child sex offender has been given a 35-year sentence for a number of non-recent offences against two young boys.