A nightclub doormen who joined three colleagues in viciously beating two men with weapons after chasing them in cars has been jailed for 10 years.

A man with more than 50 criminal convictions will be relocated when he leaves prison as he tries to turn his life around.

A multi-million pound international drug smuggling ring was being operated by a convicted heroin trafficker from his prison cell in Kent.

A former ambulance driver told his young victim he would be sent to prison if he told anyone about his crimes.

A doctor has pleaded not guilty to causing the death of a popular primary school teacher after an emergency caesarean.

A teenager inadvertently reveled he was carrying a large knife after trying to run from police.

A pensioner has walked free from court despite wrongly fitting a boiler which killed his neighbour.

Two people had to be taken to hospital after a "drunken gatecrasher" ran amok in a stranger's house.

A father has told of his anger after a 78-year-old former firefighter sexually abused his daughter.

A second man is due in court charged with the murder of a man whose decomposing body was discovered in woodland.

A 39-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after a man was slashed with a sword.

A police constable had to jump out the way as a drink driver performed a high speed u-turn and sped off, sparking a high-speed chase.

The jury in the murder trial of a man who stabbed his colleague to death at a recycling plant has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict.

A Geordie clubber was kicked unconscious by four thugs after catching one of them defecating on the floor.

A man who killed a colleague in a frenzied knife attack at a recycling centre is suffering from a paranoid personality disorder, says a psychiatrist.

A leisure centre lifeguard who spied on women as they got changed after swimming will remain on the sex offenders' register for five years.

An arsonist set fire to the flat he shared with his partner following an argument, a court heard.

A man has been cleared of causing the death of his friend who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning after he fitted a dangerous boiler at her chalet.

A tanker driver has been cleared of blame after a crash in a busy street.

A rapist youth club worker who carried out a series of vile attacks on young children in the 1990s has been jailed for 20 years.