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Outlining the facts of the case, prosecutor Matthew Jolliffe said the defendant entered Comptoir Cafe and Wine in Mayfair in the early hours of May 1 and made off with several bottles of wine valued at 6,000 and 200 cash from the till. On May 13, and June 8, he attended Oliveto and Olivo on Elizabeth Street in Belgravia and took multiple bottles of wine and cash.

On 6 June, Iuliu Kubola used a wheelie bin to cart 73 bottles of wine from the cellar of the Piazza Italiana restaurant on Threadneedle Street in the City of London to his pedicab outside. At the Old Bailey, defence barrister Daisy Kell-Jones claimed her 61-year-old client knew where the stolen wine was, and said "he is very keen for it to be returned".

Derbyshire Police said Diontai Simpson sent out "three to four messages per day" to prospective customers in Derby and Manchester. The 23-year-old, previously of Venwood Road in Prestwich, Manchester, admitted three counts of supplying cannabis, cocaine and heroin. He was sentenced at Derby Crown Court on Wednesday. Derbyshire Police said Simpson was arrested by officers who stopped a suspicious vehicle on Osmaston Road in Derby on 21 November last year. They found Class B drugs in the vehicle, and after searching an address, they discovered cannabis, cocaine, cash "and drug dealing paraphernalia such as weighing scales".

Skowronski stopped the vehicle momentarily when he first struck the girl but then continued reversing his car The child sustained a severe acquired brain injury with all aspects of her daily life now impacted A man who left a child with life changing injuries after he drove over her while he was reversing into a driveway has been given a 12-month suspended sentence.

A creche worker who 'upended and forced' a 19-month-old boy in his care onto the floor leaving an outline of a large toy block on his head and cheek has been sentenced to three years in prison for assault.

MARTINEZ - A Concord man in his late 30s has been sentenced to 13 years in state prison for raping a 13-year-old girl, a crime he allegedly tried to cover up by threatening to kill the victim or have her deported. Macario Cucul-Maaz, 39, pleaded no contest to a child rape charge and was sentenced in late June, court records show. He is currently housed at North Kern State Prison.

The 2020 shooting death of 37-year-old Charles Scrappy King Jr. had gone unsolved for years, but in 2024 a man facing federal gun charges in Stockton agreed to tell police who had done it. It was Lil Bubba, the eyewitness told authorities, who'd shot a belligerent Scrappy as the victim was bragging about having killed Mini Jug in the same area weeks earlier, according to court records.

A couple have been handed life sentences for the murder of their two-year-old grandson following a trial that exposed weeks of horrific abuse. Michael Ives, 48, and his wife Kerry, 46, subjected toddler Ethan Ives-Griffiths to sustained physical and emotional cruelty at their home in Flintshire, North Wales. Ethan was found to be dangerously dehydrated and severely underweight, bearing visible marks and bruises, when he collapsed with a catastrophic head injury in August 2021.

Reporter Rehema Tellis said from outside the courthouse, A moment ago, the prosecution began making its argument for what they hope will be an 11-year prison sentence for Combs. They just said that combs has booked a speaking engagement in Miami for next week. According to the prosecution, he says that is, The height of hubris. That is the opposite of the rule of law.'

The hip-hop mogul was convicted in July of flying people around the country for sexual encounters, including his girlfriends and male sex workers, in violation of the federal Mann Act. A jury acquitted Combs, 55, of more serious racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges that could have put him away for life. Prosecutors say he should spend more than 11 years in prison for his conviction on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.