A paedophile who downloaded more than 2,000 indecent images of children and shared them with others has been jailed.

A prisoner who was serving time for burglary beat a fellow inmate to death in an “unimaginable scene of savagery and cruelty”.

A prolific shoplifter has been jailed after stealing hundreds of pounds of items from supermarkets, including luxury chocolates.

A 32-year-old has been found guilty of manslaughter after his mum was fatally stabbed.

A “senseless” burglar who raided £6,300 of goods from a Boots store in two raids in one night has been jailed.

Video footage shows the aftermath of a crash in which a 34-year-old dad “lost control” of his vehicle and collided with two parked cars.

A missing 25-year-old sex offender who breached a court order several times was tracked down by specialist officers.

A 61-year-old Imam is facing a lengthy spell behind bars after being found guilty of sexually abusing four children over a nine-year period.

Smokers have been ordered to stump up nearly £2,500 between them for dropping cigarette butts.

Arrests have been made amid a crackdown on antisocial behaviour in a seaside town.

A drug dealer has narrowly avoided jail after pleading guilty to supplying after police raided his home and found 2kg of cannabis in his shed.

A masked gang chased a 16-year-old onto train tracks, blocked his escape and then hit him with a hammer as he was electrocuted by a live rail.

A 27-year-old man who sent sexually explicit messages and pictures to a vigilante group pretending to be a young boy has been sentenced.

A teacher has been banned from driving after crashing into her partner’s Mercedes after spotting him driving past with another woman.

A motorist crashed his car into a tree and then fell asleep at the wheel after downing wine at a party.

A Mercedes driver who was seen swerving across lanes of a busy road was found to be more than twice the drink-drive limit when pulled over y police.

A woman who admitted spitting at and assaulting two police officers told a court she was just shouting and didn’t mean to “hurt anyone”.

A pair of drug smugglers who were caught plotting to bring £190 million worth of cocaine from South America in to the UK and Europe have been jailed.

A mum-of-three drowned after she fell in a gap between sea defence boulders and became trapped underwater, an inquest has heard.

A dangerous man “intent on violence” stabbed a woman he became obsessed with in the stomach before texting her the next day admitting his actions.