A man who beat his retired BBC journalist father to death with a hammer in a “shocking and gruesome” attack has been given a hospital order, a court has confirmed.

New evidence 'potentially impacts on the reliability of a prosecution witness'

An episode of The Jeremy Kyle Show will be played to Court of Appeal judges to help determine whether an innocent man was jailed for murder after a killing in Bournemouth.

A Royal Navy sailor has been arrested after entering an officer's cabin on board a warship with a loaded weapon, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.

A man pleaded guilty today to raping three young children he had drugged and who were also forced to sexually abuse each other while he watched.

A solicitor who was shot in the head with a sawn-off shotgun in Devizes has died from his injuries.

A murder trial was halted for a day after an unqualified interpreter - filling in for his wife - could not accurately translate questions from a barrister.

A wealthy jeweller and his wife who disposed of evidence after their jealous son murdered his girlfriend at their Bournemouth home have been jailed for 27 months each.

A wealthy jeweller and his wife who disposed of evidence to help cover up after their jealous son murdered his girlfriend have been jailed for 27 months each.

A woman bludgeoned her mother-in-law to death using a rolling pin, a court heard yesterday.

A judge told a young man who strangled his aspiring model girlfriend in a jealous rage to put away thoughts of "champagne, Bentleys and girls" as she sentenced him to at least 16 years in jail.

A wealthy jeweller's son accused of murdering his girlfriend in a jealous rage told a jury yesterday that he did not strangle her but merely defended himself after she repeatedly attacked him.

A man charged with the murder of a father-of-one has been remanded in custody.

Three men and a woman were remanded in custody when they appeared in court today charged with the murder of a man whose burnt body was found in an industrial bin.