The Latest Breaking News from Crown Court

Polish national Julia Wandel, 23, will be kept in prison custody until a futher hearing next month.

Shoplifting has soared to such “epidemic” levels with reports of 17,000 incidents-a-day while attacks on shopkeepers are up by 50 per cent. Reports of violence against women and girls have surged so alarmingly in the last few years that the police declared it a “national emergency”.

Nicholas Prosper pleaded guilty to the murders of Juliana Falcon, 48, Giselle Prosper, 13, and Kyle Prosper, 16, in Luton on Monday

Nicholas Prosper, of Leabank, appeared in the dock at Luton Crown Court on Monday and spoke to confirm his identity and to make his pleas.

Zhenhao Zou, 27, is standing trial at Inner London Crown Court and denies all charges.

The British public are about to be presented with a series of “big ideas” to fix the criminal justice system which is currently utterly broken.

Tory Kieran Mullan said: ‘If the judiciary had come to us and asked for more sitting days, we would have responded to that, not told them no.’

Retired high court judge told that ‘nothing is off the table’ to reform the courts service and end the massive backlog of cases

Exclusive: Figures reveal that rape victims have to wait almost a year for a trial to begin