Courts: Celebs Rumors

A wrongly-convicted postmaster has turned down £600,000 compensation and vowed to fight for millions for victims.

Prince Harry has lost a legal battle.

A Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer has admitted sexually assaulting a young girl while on duty. PC Dean Dempster, who served with GMP in the Oldham division, today (Wednesday, February 28) pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a child under 13 last year.

A thug is behind bars after a brutal 17-second murder bid on a man in Paisley.

A bogus nurse who wandered around a hospital has been ordered not to impersonate an authority figure.

A prison officer accused of smuggling drugs and booze into the Rochdale prison where he worked will face a re-trial after 'new evidence has arisen'.

Prince Harry has lost his latest court challenge, a battle against the UK government over his level of security when in the UK.

Peaky Blinders actor Paul Anderson has broken his silence after his recent fine for possession of crack cocaine.The actor, who played Arthur Shelby Jr. in the BBC crime drama, was fined for possession of drugs including crack cocaine last month.

Run DMC‘s Jam Master Jay have been convicted of his murder over two decades after it took place.The artist, whose real name was Jason Mizell, was shot in the head at the age of 37 in Queens in 2002.Karl Jordan Jr and Ronald Washington targeted the artist at his recording studio in New York after they were cut out of a drug deal allegedly said to be worth $200,000, the court heard. They were first charged with murder back in 2020 and had initially plead not guilty.Jordan and Washington now face at least 20 years in prison.The murder trial began on January 30, with the court hearing that the Run-DMC legend’s killing was motivated by greed and revenge related to a drug deal row.An eyewitness who was at the scene of the shooting also appeared in court during the trial, identifying a suspect and recalling the Run-DMC star’s last moments.Jordan and Washington’s defence lawyer had notably invoked Harry Potter in the closing statements of the trial last week.As reported by Courthouse News, Jordan and Washington’s defence attorneys have pointed to evidence that they claim implies a third person as a suspect in Mizell’s murder, Jay Bryant.According to the prosecutors’ argument, Bryant was present simply to let Jordan and Washington into the building on the day of the murder before leaving.

The Duke of Sussex has lost his High Court challenge against the Home Office over a decision to change the level of his taxpayer-funded personal security when he visits the UK. After stepping down from being a working member of the Royal Family, Harry was told that he would no longer be given the "same degree" of publicly-funded protection when in the country, leading to him taking legal action.This decision was made in February 2020 by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec).

Police investigating the alleged 'torture' murder of Alan Lawson have charged a second suspect.

The High Court has ruled against Prince Harry in his legal fight over security arrangements for his UK visits. The long-standing disagreement relates to whether the Duke, who moved to America with Meghan Markle in 2020, should have British police protection.

After a three year court battle, Hilary Duff has won her lawsuit.

Netflix documentary Can I Tell You A Secret? explores the crimes of serial cyberstalker Matthew Hardy.Based on a true crime podcast of the same name, the miniseries follows some of the women targeted by Hardy and the police investigation which led to him receiving the longest custodial sentence in British history for stalking online.Hardy is believed to have stalked at least 62 victims over 11 years by creating fake social media accounts, before he was finally convicted in 2022.In January 2022, Hardy was sentenced to nine years in prison after he pleaded guilty to three counts of stalking with intent to cause alarm or distress, two counts of stalking without intent to cause alarm, and breaching a restraining order from 2013. He also admitted to stalking four further women at the time.In October of the same year, Hardy’s sentence was reduced to eight years in the court of appeal, after it was agreed that the original sentence was too high.According to his lawyer Sara Haque, the original sentence failed to take into account Hardy’s mental disorders, including Asperger’s and autism, which apparently caused him to have a lack of empathy for those impacted by his actions.His sentence was also reduced due to a change in the law in April 2017 for stalking offences, which the judge had failed to take into account.Hardy is still in prison at the time of writing (February 2024).

Joseph Jimenez Jr., the man who killed a TikTok star and his date at a movie theater in 2021, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The decision was made during a court hearing on

Mystery surrounds the death of man killed in a moped crash while on holiday in Turkey, an inquest has heard.

Anthony Joshua's trainer, Ben Davison, has claimed that the much-wanted fight between the 34-year-old and Tyson Fury could happen with the help of Turki al Sheikh.

JK Rowling has criticised Sky News for referring to a convicted murderer as a woman in its reporting of the case.Scarlet Blake, 26, was jailed for life after being convicted for the murder of Jorge Martin Carreno. Four months prior to this, Blake live-streamed a video in which she killed a cat, something the judge in the case said was partly inspired by Netflix documentary, Don’t F*** With Cats. The court heard Blake had watched the Netflix documentary in which a man kills kittens before filming the murder of a human.After it was reported that the killer had transitioned to female, Rowling criticised Sky News for referring to her as a woman.

His Dark Materials, has pleaded guilty to downloading hundreds of “sickening” child abuse images.The actor, from Nottingham, was found to have downloaded and viewed almost 850 images of children – some as young as three – on his mobile devices.During the case, which was held at Nottingham Crown Court, police also said they’d found 165 of the most serious category A indecent images (via Nottinghamshire Live).Nicola Patten of the prosecution said: “Two devices were seized and the defendant was arrested. On them were 165 category A images, 88 category B and 592 category C.

Three people escaped and were treated by fire crews after a flat burst into flames in Oldham on Tuesday evening (February 27).

Shamima Begum has been described as "untrustworthy and shows no remorse" by a Tory peer. It comes after she lost her latest attempt to overturn the Government's decision to take away her British citizenship.

There is a LOT you can say about Tristan Thompson, but one thing that has never been in question is how much he loves his brother! After his mother Andrea died suddenly and unexpectedly in January 2023, the NBA star stepped up to take care of his little brother Amari.

A £6m plan to totally transform Longford Park in Stretford includes a BMX new pump track and improvements to tennis courts and football pitches. There will also be improvements to the children's play equipment, Pets Corner, the cafe and Firswood Community Centre, as well as upgrades to cricket and disk golf.

A man has denied causing the death of a ‘kind and caring’ dad by dangerous driving.

Police investigating the death a boy aged three after he was hit by a tractor have charged a man with gross negligence manslaughter, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) confirmed today.

The bodies of Australian TV star Jesse Baird and his boyfriend Luke Davies have been found. Jesse's ex-boyfriend, police officer Beaumont Lamarre-Condon had been charged with murder days ago but had not co-operated with the investigation until he revealed the location of the bodies. Beaumont, who had worked as a celebrity blogger before joining the police force in 2019, handed himself in at Bondi police station in Sydney after Jesse and Luke went missing under suspicious circumstances.

A teaching assistant faked the theft of her car after her drug dealer boyfriend wrecked it in a crash while fleeing from police. Kirsty Williams, 25, falsely reported her Peugeot 108 as stolen after Ryan Lowe, 23, ploughed it into bushes while on the run.

A record producer who used to work with Sean “Diddy” Combs is the latest individual to sue the music mogul.

A man allegedly killed his sister’s ‘nuisance’ ex in a sustained knife attack after ‘taking the law into his own hands’, a trial has heard.

Murder Trial will return to BBC Scotland this year and it’s set to focus on two new cases - the deaths of Caroline Glachan and Ean Coutts.

Sean Combs is already facing several sexual assault lawsuits, and now the producer of his latest release The Love Album: Off The Grid is going after the performer for $30 million in a biting legal action.

A BA pilot and his millionaire wife looked like any other ordinary married couple - but behind closed doors, things were far from what they seemed.

“We seemed to always be rushed and under the gun,” a key crew member on the troubled Rust film told a New Mexico jury today in the involuntary manslaughter trial of armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director J.K. Rowling criticized Sky News on X (formerly Twitter) after the British television news channel posted a story about a 26-year-old being jailed for murder and referred to her as a “woman” and not a transgender woman. Scarlet Blake was found guilty last week of murdering a man four months after she live-streamed a video in which she killed a cat.

A new Channel 4 show will take viewers inside the courtroom to give them a glimpse of how the British justice system works.

Robert Brown beat his wife Joanna Simpson to death with a claw hammer in their family home in October 2010, as their two young children cowered in a playroom. He then buried the 46-year-old's body in a makeshift coffin in Windsor Great Park.