Failures by police and prosecutors to disclose evidence and handle “supergrass” witnesses led to the collapse of a trial of three men accused of committing one of Britain’s most notorious unsolved murders.

A mother has been found guilty of having her 13-year-old daughter's boyfriend fatally attacked and then persuading her to take the blame.

A man who murdered a drug addict over a £50 robbery and then had trial witnesses threatened has been jailed for life.

Two babies allegedly murdered by their mother were suffocated, an inquest heard today.

A boy of 15 is facing a life sentence after being found guilty yesterday of murdering a student who was stabbed in a row over conkers.

A young man who spent seven years in jail for murder has been freed on unconditional bail today after the prosecution announced it would not oppose the appeal against his conviction.

A private care home was criticised by a judge today as he sentenced a mentally ill resident to life for killing an innocent schoolboy.

A woman was remanded in custody yesterday charged with the double murder of her two young children.

A bank worker today admitted stealing £80,000 while working for Indian firm ICICI.

A serial sex abuser who filmed himself raping one of his victims has been jailed for 20 years.

Three teenagers have been detained for life for stabbing to death a 15-year-old school boy at a Tube station.

Passing sentence, Judge Martin Stephens said the men saw themselves as above the law

The rioter who set fire to a 140-year-old furniture shop, burning it to the ground in a scene which became a symbol of last summer’s riots, has been sentenced to 11-and-a-half years in prison.