The Latest Breaking News from Preston Crown Court

Medical records of a woman who claimed she was the victim of a grooming gang do not match allegations she was beaten, stabbed and given a “backstreet abortion”, a court has heard.Preston Crown Court heard Eleanor Williams, of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, made the claims to her boyfriend in a message, in…

Andrew Burnfield denied killing former partner Katie Kenyon for months, but changed his plea to guilty three days into the murder trial on Wednesday.

Andrew Burfield, 51, changed his plea yesterday to admit to the murder of ex-girlfriend Katie Kenyon, 33, who he killed with an axe before burying her body in a shallow grave

The group have been jailed for more than 80 years together.

Sohayl Suleman, 38, and Junior Lewis Otway, 42, were facing charges of murder and attempted murder following the botched assassination attempt of garage owner Pacha Khan in May 2020

Crack dealer Derek McDuffus dreamed of becoming a chef, but when gang lord Dessie Noonan knocked on his door one night in 2005, he became a murderer

Alan Magnan placed a plastic bottle with a flaming rag under a Range Rover owned by the licensee

Mark Slater was spared jail

Georgina Barnes, 30, said her "sleepy neighbourhood" turned into "something out of a sick horror movie" after would-be serial killer David Iwo instilled terror into Norwich by severing and killing cats