News about Andrew Shaw

CJ Fitt (pictured left) was 17 when he raced towards the crossing at up to 50mph on his Yamaha 125CC in wet and overcast conditions. Witnesses who saw him moments before he ploughed into Lucy Machin (pictured right), 55, described him riding like an 'idiot' and a 'wally'. Mrs Machin, who was described by her husband as 'risk averse' and 'attentive' of her surroundings because she had rheumatoid arthritis, sustained a 'catastrophic' head injury and died in hospital. Scaffolder Fitt, who is now 18, initially denied causing death by careless driving but changed his plea to guilty. He also admitted causing death by driving while uninsured.

A former film student who repeatedly raped two women and sexually assaulted a third while they were asleep has been warned he faces a potential life sentence. Connor Yaxley, 30, claimed he was 'dreaming' when he had sex with two women, arguing that he was unaware of his actions. He was found guilty of all charges after a nine-day trial at Norwich Crown Court. Yaxley, from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, had denied three counts of rape against one woman between December 2017 and December 2019, two counts of rape against a second woman between April 2018 and August 2020, and the sexual assault of a third woman in August 2020. The jury took just six hours to convict him on all counts.

She fled to her room but he followed her there and kept banging on the door and repeatedly called her phone. Raghu, who is also married and owns care homes in Norfolk, denied sexual assault but was convicted following a trial. Sentencing him, Judge Andrew Shaw said he remained 'utterly without remorse' despite the profound effect his 'selfish and predatory' had on his victim. Raghu 'deliberately manipulated the situation' by joking about sharing a room with the woman before the trip to Stratford-upon-Avon in the West Midlands, and arranging for wine and chocolates to be waiting in her room when she arrived.

ROBERT HARDMAN: There was no shortage of people wanting to join this party. In fact, just nine minutes after going online last month, all the tickets had gone for a night of rich comedy at one of Edinburgh's most fashionable nightclubs. The audience would be a very mixed bag, as it turned out. According to one organiser, they spanned 'radical separatist lesbians, libertarian males, geeky unwashed students and middle-aged Daily Mail readers'. They all had one thing in common, though. They all wanted to have a good laugh at one of the most absurd laws since Henry VIII's beard tax. And there is certainly plenty to laugh (or cry) about with regard to Scotland's new Hate Crime and Public Order Act. Indeed, over the last few days, it has united judges, police officers and pretty much the entire Scottish public in their mockery of a chaotic exercise in virtue-signalling by the country's ruling Scottish Nationalist/Green alliance. This is a law which makes it a 'hate' crime to abuse a man in a dress but not a woman wearing the very same dress. For, while it offers specific protections for those who are trans-gender, non-binary or simply cross-dressing, it does not offer similar protections for women.

Gerald Tubby (left), 58, was working at Ikea when he was discovered with stacks of drugs and cash at his house (bottom right). The lenient sentence had stunned neighbors who flocked to the father-of-one's house in Newton Flotman, near Norwich, to score medications. The judge "let him off," Neighbour Roger Howell (top right) said.

Two women were convicted of kidnapping a woman with learning difficulties and then exposing her to a "terrible and horrific assault," after which they searched the internet for ways to kill her and dispose of her body. Elisha Robinson (left) and Jodie Colvin (right), along with a teenage boy who cannot be identified, conspired together to kidnap the victim and transfer her to a bungalow. A court heard that the 21-year-old woman was repeatedly sexually assaulted, coerced to eat excrement, and poured bleach and boiling water over her near Norwich, Norfolk. The court heard that although the teen didn't intentionally hurt the victim, the woman was urged to cause as much pain as possible.' Judge Andrew Shaw referred to the six-hour ordeal as a "terrible, terrifying, and horrific assault." Since the attack, the extremely vulnerable victim, who is learning difficulties, was suffering serious physical and mental traumas, according to him.

Researchers from the University of Exeter have developed a device that can detect tiny molecules in blood to detect health conditions and diseases.

BEWARNING CONTENT CONTENT: Dami Tobi Ayan (right) pushed him to the ground and dragging him by the arms before slapping him with an open hand. On Wednesday, Ayan (left) was sentenced to nine months in prison for failing to provide ill care or wilful neglect of a person with no mental capacity at a later hearing. Judge Andrew Shaw found the defendant had demonstrated a "complete lack of compassion and respect" in his ward's care, who was "completely dependent on his carers for everything."

After he refused to appear in the courtroom or sentence, a judge accused a paedophile who sexually assaulted a sleeping child and plummeting her with alcohol of attempting to conceal his'shame'. Malcolm Appleby (left) laced the 12-year-old girl's juice with rum and whisky before molesting her on a camping trip. If she pursued a lawsuit against him, the 39-year-old career criminal told her she would get into 'all get into trouble' if she pursued a lawsuit and told her that it was 'all a dream.' Following a trial in his absence earlier this year, he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13 and intimidating a witness. Judge Andrew Shaw dismissed Malcolm Appleby's deliberate attempts to compel this trial to exclude himself from it, despite the fact that he has no excuse to it.'

After his £220,000 was removed - £170,000 in cash - from his account, a Mold Crown Court heard Gerald Corrigan (left), 74, had "virtually nothing" at the time of his death. Wyn Lewis (right), 51, of Llanfair-yn-Neubwll, North Wales, was charged with eleven counts of fraud and a single count of attempting to pervert justice. Mr Corrigan was fatally shot with a crossbow outside his house in a rural area of Anglesey in April 2019. The court heard that during forensic inquiries with his partner Marie Bailey, police learned they may have been victims of a scam.