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The Latest Breaking News from Leicester Crown Court

Trial date set for man accused over ‘sweets laced with sedatives’ at summer camp

The court heard that Jon Ruben’s trial is expected to last four weeks.

Evening Standard

Teenagers’ sentences ‘do not reflect severity of crime’, say Bhim Kohli’s family

A 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl were sentenced at Leicester Crown Court on Thursday for the manslaughter of the 80-year-old last year.

Evening Standard

Bhim Kohli’s grandson ‘haunted’ by thought he could have saved grandfather

A 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl are being sentenced on Thursday at Leicester Crown Court for the manslaughter of the 80-year-old.

Evening Standard

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Man admits urging vulnerable woman to seriously self-harm and to kill herself

Tyler Webb, 22, was the first person in the country to be charged with encouraging serious self-harm under the Online Safety Act 2023.

Evening Standard

Jail for special constable who accessed video of dying man and took photos of it

William Heggs, 23, took photos of a crime victim and accessed other sensitive material on his personal phone, Leicester Crown Court heard.

Evening Standard

Woman who claimed to be Madeleine McCann denies stalking missing girl's family by ‘turning up at family home’

Julia Wandel, 23, appears in court accused of making calls, leaving voicemails, and sending a letter and WhatsApp messages to Kate and Gerry McCann

Evening Standard

Boy’s actions ‘appalling’ but he is ‘not a murderer’, trial jury told

A teenage boy accused of attacking an 80-year-old man as he walked his dog did not intend to kill him, his barrister has told a murder trial jury.

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Teenager accused of man’s park murder launched ‘intense’ attack, court told

Prosecution counsel Harpreet Sandhu used his closing speech at Leicester Crown Court to accuse the 15-year-old of leaving Bhim Kohli for dead.

Evening Standard

Women accused of stalking Madeleine McCann's family appear in court

Polish national Julia Wandel was refused bail at Leicester Crown Court shortly before Karen Spragg, from Cardiff, was bailed by magistrates

Evening Standard

Women accused of stalking Madeleine McCann’s family appear in court

Julia Wandel, 23, who has in the past claimed to be Madeleine McCann was arrested at Bristol Airport last month

The Independent UK

Girl, 13, took photo of pensioner week before fatal incident, jury told

Two children are on trial at Leicester Crown Court accused of killing Bhim Kohli, 80.

Evening Standard

Elderly man ‘hit boy to legs with shoe’ in park, murder trial told

Two children are on trial at Leicester Crown Court accused of killing Bhim Kohli, 80, in a park.

The Independent UK

Park murder accused, 15, told witness he had anger issues, jury told

Jurors at Leicester Crown Court also heard claims that the youth charged with murdering Bhim Kohli, 80, said ‘it is what it is at the end of the day’.

The Independent UK

Murder trial shown CCTV of children running from park after pensioner attacked

A 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl are on trial accused of killing 80-year-old Bhim Kohli in a park near Leicester in September last year.

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Evening Standard

Jury sworn in ahead of trial of two children accused of killing elderly man

Bhim Kohli died in hospital in September last year after he was allegedly attacked in a park near his home in Braunstone Town, near Leicester.

Evening Standard

Warwickshire mother facing jail over plan to join terror group in Afghanistan

Farishta Jami researched weapons and one-way flights to Kabul and wanted to join a branch of the so-called Islamic State.

The Independent UK

Man who ‘beat, kicked and stamped’ his girlfriend to death in bedroom before going to sleep jailed for life

Raj Sidpara was given a minimum term of 21 years for murdering Tarnjeet Riaz in May

Evening Standard

Man jailed for life after murdering partner in ‘merciless’ bedside attack

Raj Sidpara was given a minimum term of 21 years for murdering Tarnjeet Riaz in May.

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Man beat partner and may have slept while she died on floor by bed, court told

Raj Sidpara, 50, previously admitted the manslaughter of Tarnjeet Riaz, 44, but denies murdering her on May 6 after a night out.

The Independent UK

Callum Parslow told jurors he intended to injure his victim as a ‘protest’

Parslow tried unsuccefully to persuade jurors that he did not intend to kill asylum seeker Nahom Hagos.

The Independent UK

Foster carer jailed for murdering young girl she was trying to adopt

Katie Tidmarsh was convicted at Leicester Crown Court of killing one-year-old Ruby Thompson in 2012.

The Independent UK

Woman found guilty of murdering toddler she was adopting decade ago

Katie Tidmarsh, 39, was convicted at Leicester Crown court of killing Ruby Thompson more than a decade ago

The Independent UK

Woman found guilty of murdering one-year-old daughter she was adopting

Katie Tidmarsh, 39, was convicted at Leicester Crown Court of killing Ruby Thompson more than a decade ago.

The Independent UK

TikTok influencer guilty of murdering her mother’s young lover over sex tape blackmail attempt

Victim, 21, rammed off road with innocent driver after threatening to expose three-year affair with older woman

Daily Mirror

'Gentle giant' stabbed man to death after he was accused of 'flirting with girlfriend'

Mason Mills stabbed Kieron Moore to death after the victim attacked him with a plank of wood as he stood smoking outside his sister's house, wrongly believing him to be involved with his girlfriend

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