A troubled woman who set fire to a Victorian house where others lived was suffering from a rare personality disorder, a court heard.

Dozens of anti-depressant pills slipped into the beer of a hard-drinking dwarf could have alone led to his death, a court's heard.

The level of anti-depressants slipped into a man's drink 'just sneaked' into the fatal range, a toxicology expert told a court.

A selfish son repaid his parents' love by draining his dad's credit card in a fraudulent spending spree... for the second time in two years.

A Gravesend man has been jailed after he was caught drink-driving for the THIRD time as he tried to escape from police.

A burglar went on an orgy of drunken violence at a 15th Century listed home... thinking he was the author Charles Dickens!

A 74-year-old moped rider died when his bike was 'demolished' under the wheels of a Warburtons bread lorry, a court heard.

What a pervert said about his nine-year-old victim before he was locked away for 10 years.

A pal slipped a load of anti-depressant pills into his mate's beer 'for a laugh'... only for his friend to later die, a court heard.

A soldier who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan has been spared jail for badly beating an old friend at a party.

A heartless young woman stole valuable and sentimental jewellery worth £20,000 from her mother to pay for tattoos, socialising and alcohol.

A child abuser who attacked two young girls - even making one wear a thong as he performed sick sex acts - has been locked up for six years.

A Romanian national who groped a woman and exposed himself outside a bar soon after arriving in Britain has been jailed.

A thug who threatened pub customers with a gun is being hunted after disappearing from a Kent prison, it's emerged today.

A young man is due in court today accused of trying to murder an 18-year-old seriously injured in a hammer attack.

A drug-taking drunk who launched a vile tirade of racial abuse against a cabbie claims he isn't racist - because he has a Pakistani half-brother.

A drunk cafe owner left five revellers nursing injuries after lashing out when he was rebuffed on a nightclub dancefloor by two girls.

A motorist who ran over a pedestrian by leaving the handbrake off her car at Bluewater has been found guilty of causing her death by careless driving.

A junkie who posed as a police officer involved in an operation to steal money from unsuspecting victims is behind bars today.

A drunk father turned up at his young son's school with two knives after telling his ex-lover he would snatch the boy in a campaign of harassment.