A CLOSED court is being used to film a Netflix drama - while the Ministry of Justice fork out millions on a temporary court less than half a mile away. Blackfriars Crown Court, in central London ...

Closed in December 2019, the former Blackfriars Crown Court site is awaiting redevelopment and has been hired out for filming and photography for the last nine months by its new owner. Despite ...

A father has been jailed for life for a “moment of anger and frustration” that caused the death of his baby daughter six years later. Kyle Kitchen, 38, assaulted his eight-week-old daughter ...

Lorraine Barwell, 54, was assaulted on Monday as she escorted a prisoner from Blackfriars Crown Court to a van. Humphrey Burke, 22, appeared at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court on Wednesday ...

The day she was attacked, Burke was due to be sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court for arson and attempted robbery. In January, he was given an indefinite hospital order for manslaughter by ...

The media have been riveted in recent days by a drama in Blackfriars Crown Court, where a defendant charged with intimidating a witness refused to remove her full-face veil or 'niqab'.

43 per cent of courts were closed after 2010. (One of these, Blackfriars Crown Court, was later used to film courtroom scenes for Netflix drama Top Boy.) But the number of cases awaiting trial ...

Lorraine Barwell, 54, was assaulted on Monday as she escorted a prisoner from Blackfriars Crown Court to a van. Humphrey Burke, 22, appeared at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court on Wednesday ...