Esther Halligan
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Man on trial for murder bid is 'no angel' but 'did not try to kill', court hears (opens the original)
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Luke Blake is standing trial at Teesside Crown Court(Image: Teesside Live) The jury in an attempted murder trial has heard the accused did stab a man in a flat on Marton Road. But the court heard defendant Luke Blake, 31, did not intend to kill the injured man. Blake "forced his way into" a ground floor flat at 3am on April 15, the prosecution say, and launched a "ferocious knife attack" on the 58- year-old man who lived there. Blake possibly mistook the flat for somewhere he could buy drugs fro
Duo kicked 'entirely innocent' man's door down over 'stolen gold chains' (opens the original)
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Joe Murphy and Alex Wild (Image: Cleveland Police) Two men kicked down the door of an "entirely innocent" man's home after being given the wrong information. Joe Murphy - wearing a red and white wrestling mask - and pal Alex Wild kicked through the front door of a house on Lambton Street, Normanby. The duo then shouted aggressively at the innocent man inside - "demanding to know where the stuff was" late at night on January 25. The victim tripped over a table in his home, Ms Mellor said, and whe
Middlesbrough burglar Zoe Sharp disconnected wifi to cut CCTV in family's home (opens the original)
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Middlesbrough burglar Zoe Sharp disconnected the wifi in a family's home she'd sneaked into - in a bid to cut the CCTV camera. Zoe Sharp climbed into the family home in Clough Close, Linthorpe, through the bathroom window while the residents were out, Teesside Crown Court was told. And when she spotted the living room spy camera, she left, but returned with her hood up and disconnected the wifi. The 36-year-old stole a bank card from the property, but it was declined when she attempted to use it
Dealer with extendable baton was 'not the brains of any operation' (opens the original)
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A drug dealer was caught red-handed when police arrived at a Thornaby home. Billy Parker was wanted on prison recall after he had been released from a previous sentence for robbery, Teesside Crown Court heard. When officers turned up at the house on August 28, a number of men tried to leave by the rear door on Ringway. Parker was in the home - and he had an extendable baton with him, Emma Atkinson, prosecuting, told the court on Monday. He was searched, and officers found "cocaine in his trouser
Man launched 'ferocious knife attack with 14 blows to victim', court told (opens the original)
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A Middlesbrough man on trial for attempted murder "delivered at least 14 blows to his victim with a knife," a jury has heard. Luke Blake, 31, is accused of trying to kill a man in his own Marton home in the middle of the night on April 15. "The fact that the victim was not killed was pure chance," Emma Dowling, prosecuting, has told a jury at Teesside Crown Court. Ms Dowling said that Blake "lost his temper and had murder in mind" when he launched a "short-lived but ferocious" attack on a man, w
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