A man has been jailed today (6 February 2023) at Winchester Crown Court for killing Freddie Fontete-Jones with a single punch to the head that caused Freddie a catastrophic brain injury.

Connor Pool, aged 25 and from Salisbury, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment.

During the early hours of 20 February 2022, Freddie was punched in the head by Connor Pool in the area outside Chick-O-Land, New Canal. He tragically died three days later.

The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Merseyside Police to charge three men in connection with the murder of Ashley Dale in Old Swan in Liverpool in August 2022.

A chef and a delivery driver have each been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a 71-year-old woman after a plan to plunder her life savings went wrong.

The body of Louise Kam had been concealed in a wheelie bin and was found at an address in Barnet on 1 August 2021.

Mohamed El Abboud, 28, from Barnet, and Kusai Al-Jundi, 24, from Harrow, were today handed life sentences with a minimum term of 35 years after being unanimously found guilty of her murder by a jury at the Central Criminal Court on 19 January. 

A Fareham man has been sentenced today (27 January 2023) at Swindon Crown Court after he launched an attack on two ambulance crew workers who were there to give him medical attention.

Paul Searle, 59, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for intending to cause grievous bodily harm, assaulting an emergency worker and for threatening a person with a meat cleaver.

The ambulance crew attended Searle’s home in the early hours of 11 February 2021. He became verbally abusive towards them, so much so that they returned to their ambulance.