A man has been sent to prison for one month after pleading guilty to burgling a domestic garage and stealing a road bike, frozen food, alcohol and a leaf blower.
A teenager has avoided an immediate jail sentence for carrying a machete after magistrates agreed there were exceptional circumstances in the case.
HS2 has welcomed the jailing of tunnellers and protestors who held up construction work in Swynnerton, Staffordshire.
A Telford man has been sentenced for having a knife in a public place in Shrewsbury town centre.
Motorists caught texting on their mobile phones while driving deserve to be sent to prison, one of the Government's top law officers has told a Midland MP.
A homeless man has avoided an immediate jail sentence after admitting spitting at a police officer, racially abusing several men and threatening to “smash a man’s head in”.
A yob who threatened a schoolboy with a knife, battered him and mugged him in a case of mistaken identity has avoided jail.
A Dudley drink driver has been banned from the roads after blowing more than three times the legal alcohol limit.
A temporary "Nightingale" courtroom has been created in Birmingham in a bid to tackle the backlog caused by the impact of coronavirus.
A Porsche driver who admitted getting behind the wheel while banned has avoided being sent to prison.
A man jailed for growing cannabis at a Kidderminster property has been ordered to pay back the proceeds of his crime, or face more time in prison.
A former heroin dealer who turned his life around in the three-and-a-half years he waited to be sentenced has had his jail term cut by appeal judges.
Just seven youths received custodial sentences in a 12-month period in Shropshire – with others walking free despite being responsible for arson attacks, burgling homes and committing sexual offences.
A 34-year-old man has started a 12-month prison sentence after pleading with the judge to lock him up.
A man who admitted raping and sexually assaulting an 80-year-old woman in a Shropshire cemetery has been told it is "inevitable" he will receive a lengthy custodial sentence. A man who admitted raping and sexually assaulting an 80-year-old woman in a Shropshire cemetery has been told it is "inevitable" he will receive a lengthy custodial sentence. Haydyn Mellor, of no fixed abode, admitted carrying out the attack in the cemetery in Hengoed, Oswestry, on July 23 this year. He appeared in Shrewsbury Crown Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to two charges of rape, one of sexual touching and stealing the victim's purse. Judge Robin Onions said: "I am going to reserve this case to me because of the nature and seriousness of the matter. "I am going to require a lot of convincing that this man is not dangerous. It is as bad a case as I have come across in my experience." Read more in the Shropshire Star
