Nottingham Crown Court
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Crown Court
The Crown Court of England and Wales is, together with the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal, one of the constituent parts of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...
and High Court of Justice
High Court of Justice
The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...
in Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Description
The building was designed by the Property Services Agency (architects P. Harvard, K. Bates and J. Mansell). . It sits on Canal Street in Nottingham. Courts first sat in the building from 1981.Previously the Crown Court sat in the Shire Hall on High Pavement
Galleries of Justice
The Galleries of Justice museum is a tourist attraction on High Pavement in the Lace Market area of Nottingham, England. It is home to The Villainous Sheriff of Nottingham where you will discover Nottingham's horrible history and delve into the dark and disturbing past of Crime and PunishmentThe...
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Recent High Profile cases
- February 1984 - Conviction of Norman Smith for the murder of Susan RenhardSusan RenhardSusan Renhard was a student murdered in Cave Dale near Castleton, Derbyshire in Derbyshire 1983. Norman Hugh Smith, a young student, later admitted to her sexual assault but denied strangling her. He is thought to still be in prison.-Background:...
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- May 1993 - Conviction of nurse Beverley Allitt for the murder and attempted murder of 13 children at Grantham and Kesteven HospitalGrantham and Kesteven HospitalGrantham and District Hospital, is an NHS hospital located in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.-History:It opened in 1874 as Grantham and Kesteven Hospital. It is one of four main hospitals in Lincolnshire, being the third largest, and covers the Kesteven area of the county, as well as east...
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- July 2004. Conviction of Alan Pennell, 16, for the murder of Luke Walmsley, 14.
- May 2005 - Conviction of Peter Williams for the murder of jeweller Marian Bates.
- October 2005 - Conviction of Mark Kelly and Junior Andrews for the murder of schoolgirl Danielle Beccan.
- December 2009 - Conviction of Susan Bacon, Michael Bacon and Peter Jacques for the murder of gamekeeper Nigel Bacon
- 25 January 2010, Stewart Hutchinson jailed for life for the murder of Colette AramMurder of Colette AramThe murder of Colette Aram concerns Colette Aram, a 16-year-old trainee hairdresser who was abducted, raped and strangled as she walked from her home to her boyfriend's house in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, on 30 October 1983. The murder was the first case to be featured on the BBC television series...
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- January 2011 - the collapse of the trial of climate protestors charged with conspiring to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power StationRatcliffe-on-Soar Power StationRatcliffe-on-Soar power station is a coal-fired power station operated by E.ON UK at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, England. Commissioned in 1968 by the then Central Electricity Generating Board, the station has a capacity of 2,000 MW...