An entrepreneur was sentenced today (3 March 2025) after having been convicted of fraudulently obtaining two COVID-19 Bounce Bank Loans to a value of over £95,000.

Craig Gibson, 45, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment suspended for two years at Liverpool Crown Court after being convicted of fraud by false representation and fraud by abuse of position of trust, for submitting two fraudulent applications for loans from a government scheme set up to support businesses during the pandemic.

A man from Leicester has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Natasha Morais in her own home in Leicester after being convicted by a jury. 

He also was sentenced for possessing a sawn off shotgun unconnected to the murder, which was recovered at the scene.  

Shannon Grant, 27, strangled Ms Morais whilst staying at her flat. Before her murder she had impaired mobility and had been involved in a serious car accident. The defendant had befriended her since the accident. 

A property tycoon has been given a sentence of 12 years' imprisonment after having been found guilty of a £3.5 million fraud over claims he sold houseboats on a stretch of the river Thames that could not be lived in.

Myck Djurberg (64) was convicted at Kingston Crown Court for fraudulently selling houseboats without appropriate planning permission on 19 March 2024 and was sentenced on 27 March 2024 to 12 years' imprisonment at the same court.

A convicted money launderer responsible for transporting illegal money to Dubai has been ordered to pay £2,543,047.47 through a Confiscation Order after an appeal judgement made by the court on 27 May 2025. 

Abdulla Mohammad Ali Bin Beyat Alfalasi, 48, arranged the transport of an estimated £93-£110 million in illegally obtained cash to Dubai, by carrying (and arranging for others to carry) suitcases packed with around £500,000 of illegal cash onto business class flights.

A violent and hostile gang of people who gathered outside the Suites hotel in Knowsley in February 2023 have been sentenced.

Four people who were convicted following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court in January 2024 were part of a larger group who threw missiles and paving slabs at police and set fire to a police van on Ribblers Lane in Kirkby on 10 February 2023.