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The Latest Breaking News from Sheffield Crown Court

Rioter jailed for stoking fire outside asylum hotel

Matthew Crossland, 32, was jailed for nine years, the equal longest handed down following the rioting in August 2024

The Independent UK

Equal longest summer riots sentence for man who stoked fire outside hotel

Matthew Crossland, 32, was jailed for nine years after he fuelled a fire set outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham.

Evening Standard

Man found guilty of grooming and raping two teenage girls in Rotherham

Obaidullah Omari, 46, from Sheffield, targeted the vulnerable girls, who were aged between 13 and 14 at the time of the abuse.

Evening Standard

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Detective pursued relationship with sex offence victim whose case he was investigating

The IOPC launched an investigation into 55-year-old Wasim Bashir’s behaviour after a complaint from a woman

The Independent UK

‘Pc Predator’ jailed for second time after having sex with crime victim

Stuart Trentham was sent to prison for 18 months by the same judge who sentenced him in February for an ‘almost identical’ crime.

Evening Standard

Officer jailed for sexual offence returns to prison for ‘almost identical’ crime

Stuart Trentham was sent to prison for 18 months by the same judge who sentenced him in February

The Independent UK

Schoolboy who stabbed another pupil to death found guilty of murder

Harvey Willgoose, 15, was stabbed in the heart in front of horrified children by another 15-year-old boy who had taken a hunting knife to school.

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Rotherham abuse prisoner found guilty of raping another teenager

Sageer Hussain, 39, was one of three men found guilty of rape at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday

The Independent UK

Boy tells jury he ordered knife ‘weeks’ before stabbing fellow pupil to death

The teenager is on trial at Sheffield Crown Court accused of murdering 15-year-old Harvey Willgoose at a secondary school in the city.

Evening Standard

Boy who stabbed pupil to death tells jury why he took ‘scary’ knife to school

The teenager is on trial at Sheffield Crown Court accused of murdering 15-year-old Harvey Willgoose, at a secondary school in the city.

Evening Standard

Boy to go on trial accused of murdering Harvey Willgoose, 15, at school

The teenager, who cannot be named, has admitted Harvey’s manslaughter but denies murder.

The Independent UK

Woman admits trying to smother elderly mother with pillow in hospital bed

A court heard Susan Hardwick carried out an ‘attempted mercy killing’ to stop her mother being transferred to another hospital for palliative care.

Evening Standard

Police officer jailed for raping woman while off duty

Ben Bottomley, 23, was found guilty of rape and sexual assault after a trial at Sheffield Crown Court

The Independent UK

Brothers jailed for raping teenagers in Rotherham

Mark and Robert Evans befriended the girls, one as young as 13, in the South Yorkshire town almost two decades ago.

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Hospital worker who took pressure cooker bomb into maternity ward jailed for life

Mohammad Farooq was only stopped after being talked down by patient Nathan Newby

The Independent UK

Rotherham rapists jailed for grooming girls who were ‘vulnerable in the extreme’

The pair inflicted ‘severe psychological harm’ to their victims, judge says

The Independent UK

Prison officer who boasted about sex acts with inmates is jailed

The judge outlined the issues prisons are having with accommodating inmates serving short sentences

The Independent UK

Depraved couple jailed for sex with dog in worst case judge has ever seen

Graham Marshall made Paige Reaney engaged in a range of sex acts with their pet pug

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Sheffield Judge Slams Court Intruders, Sets Summer Trial for Teenage Murder Defendant

In a dramatic scene at Sheffield Crown Court yesterday, Recorder of Sheffield Judge Jeremy Richardson KC exploded in anger

Evening Standard

Rioter told he has ‘utterly wrecked his life’ as he is jailed for three years

John Webster, 41, was a ‘prominent participant’ in the confrontations between rioters and police outside the Holiday Inn Express, in Rotherham.

The Independent UK

Rotherham rioter who tried to set fire to asylum seeker hotel is jailed for nine years

Levi Fishlock – who was ‘very identifiable’ in a purple England football shirt during the UK summer riots – has been given one of the stiffest sentences so far

The National (Scotland)

Man who fuelled hotel fire receives highest sentence for riot-related offence

A RIOTER who helped fuel a fire outside a hotel housing asylum seekers during last summer's riots in England…

The Independent UK

Man who fuelled hotel fire given joint highest riot-related sentence so far

Levi Fishlock was jailed for nine years over his role in the disorder outside the Holiday Inn Express at Manvers, Rotherham.

Evening Standard

Two brothers found guilty of raping teenage girls almost 20 years ago

Mark Evans, 36, and Robert Evans, 40, were convicted on Wednesday after a two-week trial at Sheffield Crown Court.

Evening Standard

Man whose truck was filled with debris used by rioters jailed for 27 months

Jake Turton, 38, was part of the disorder which broke out outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham

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