Olivia Pratt-Korbel's mum has welcomed new powers to ensure criminals who refuse to attend their sentencing hearings are ...

The mother of a nine-year-old girl whose murderer refused to appear in court to hear his sentence has welcomed new powers ...

CRIMINALS who refuse to face victims’ families for sentencing will be hit with extra jail time. Cowards could get two more ...

Cllr Carl Cashman said: “It’s completely unfair. “Labour are throwing up barriers to people so that they don’t come into the city centre, but the Liverpool Lib Dems want to give them lots ...

A public consultation over changes to city centre parking was a "tick-box exercise" which ignored local people, an opposition ...

Several high-profile cases have seen offenders refusing to face victims' families when they are sentenced for their crimes.

Grieving families led calls for changes to compel killers to appear in the dock after gunman Thomas Cashman, who murdered nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool, refused to attend as he ...

New powers for judges are among the measures in the Government’s Victims Bill to be introduced to Parliament on Wednesday. | ...

Judges will be able punish those who refuse to attend court under ‘long overdue reforms’ following outcry over killers who ...

Olivia Pratt-Korbel was fatally shot by Thomas Cashman when he chased a fellow drug dealer into her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on 22 August 2022. Cheryl Korbel said she had wanted to speak ...