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• Former Met officer David Carrick jailed for life over rapes

Here’s more on those comments Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb made earlier to Carrick (see 11.46am). She said:

These convictions represent a spectacular downfall for a man charged with upholding the law and empowered to do so even to the extent of being authorised to bear a firearm in the execution of his duty.

Behind a public appearance of propriety and trustworthiness you took monstrous advantage of women.

Leslie Allen recruited plotters but plan ‘failed spectacularly’ after jurors became suspicious

A drugs kingpin, a rogue juror, his mother, and a mechanic have been jailed for attempting to fix a trial.

Boxing promoter Leslie Allen, 66, recruited a team of stooges to help him get off charges of having £150,000 of cannabis and cocaine and a pepper spray in 2018.

Essex police make two arrests after body parts of local 59-year-old discovered on New Year’s Eve

Police have named the 59-year-old man whose remains were discovered in a pond in Essex.

Essex police announced on Tuesday that the remains had been discovered in Oakwood Pond in Harlow on New Year’s Eve and were likely to have been there for weeks.

Exclusive: Mark McDonald believes Russell murders case will turn out to be a serious miscarriage of justice

“He rings me every day, we talk every day,” says Mark McDonald, the barrister who for the past two decades has represented Michael Stone, the man convicted of one of the most notorious crimes in British history: the murders by hammer of Dr Lin Russell and her daughter Megan, and the attempted murder of her eldest child, Josie, the sole survivor.

Sat at a table in a sparsely decorated office in his chambers off London’s Chancery Lane, McDonald reaches past a pile of papers for a phone to check his call records.