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A jury has been discharged after being unable to reach verdicts in the trial of a teenager, who was accused of sexually assaulting a ...
Britain must radically reform its criminal justice system, including by removing the right to trial by jury for certain offences, to help tackle a record-high backlog of cases, a government ...
Jurors have retired to consider their verdicts in the trial of parents accused of gross negligence manslaughter after their ...
The jury in the trial of a couple accused of murdering their two-year-old grandson have retired to consider their verdicts.
A jury will resume its deliberations today to decide whether to convict a mother of manslaughter after the death of her baby.
A murder trial jury has been told they can come to a majority verdict as five people stand accused of killing Bishop Auckland dad Craig Yorke.
THE jury in the trial concerning the parents accused of murdering their two-week-old baby have now retired to consider their verdict.
Jurors have been urged by prosecutors to "not be distracted" by the kick and stamp of a police officer during a fracas at ...
The Government’s plan to remove juries from trials of offences that carry less than two years’ imprisonment upon conviction, and trials of ...
A jury has begun its deliberations in the trial of five people accused of murdering Bishop Auckland dad-of-two Craig Yorke.
Christopher Rickard wept in the dock as the jury foreman delivered not guilty verdicts. The 36-year-old was accused of raping a woman in the New Forest in the summer of 2023. Rickard had told police ...
Edwin Youll denies 26 offences including rape, serious sexual assault, physical violence, indecency with a child and living ...