A grandson pocketed more than £50,000 from his grandfather's will... conning other relatives into thinking they had been left very little.

A recruitment consultant stole hundreds of pounds of shopping by pretending all his items were loose onions at a self-serve Sainsbury's checkout.

A woman who wasted hundreds of police hours and sparked a major investigation after reporting a rape has admitted it never happened.

A skirmish ended more than a decade of evading justice for a drink-driver who fled a courtroom just before sentencing.

Three thugs have been locked up over the mugging of two teenagers after telling them they would show them the way to a nightclub.

A garage owner who killed his niece's fiancé when he crashed a customer's high-performance sports car he wanted to "show off" has been jailed.

A young man broke into his ex-partner's home and stole her condoms in a bid to prevent her from having sex with anyone else after he was dumped.

A man is set to appear in court charged with a dozen counts of child rape and other sex offences.

A retired businessman jailed for trying to sell weapon parts to Iran after being extradited to America has reportedly been transferred to a UK prison.

An agoraphobic man facing eviction because he cannot pay his "bedroom tax" has written to the Queen to ask for help.

A custody sergeant who served for 23 years in Kent Police was blackmailed after he sought out a 13-year-old girl to send him revealing pictures.

A taxi driver accused of deliberately reversing at three friends has today been acquitted of assault and dangerous driving.

A young man is accused of breaking an elderly woman's hip while allegedly carrying out a theft at a jewellery store.

A firm has been fined £11,000 after admitting health and safety failings when a worker had the skin torn from his hand on a printing press.

A man has appeared in court to deny murdering a father-of-two who was shot dead in the street.

A crooked financial adviser who carried out a £300,000 fraud tried to give his speeding points to a disabled pensioner without her knowledge.

A black cab driver deliberately reversed at three friends in a row over the fare - before ignoring their screams and driving off, a court heard.

A mini cab driver has avoided an immediate prison sentence after touching a 17-year-old girl passenger's leg several times on a late-night journey.

A drink-driver took his mum's car after a row with his girlfriend and careered into a beauty salon, leaving a trail of destruction and £50,000 damage.

A teenager who stole around £2,400 worth of goods from a garage has avoided a jail sentence and having to make compensation payments to the victim.