Nottingham Crown Court
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Nottingham Crown and County Courts front on Canal Street as seen from the top of the former Broadmarsh shopping centre Nottingham Crown Court | |
| Location | Canal Street, Nottingham |
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| Built | 1981 |
| Architect | Property Services Agency |
| Architectural style | Modern style |
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Nottingham Crown Court, or more formally the High Court of Justice and Crown Court, Nottingham is a Crown Court and meeting place of the High Court of Justice on Canal Street in Nottingham, England. The building also accommodates the County Court and the Family Court.
History
[edit | edit source]Until the early 1980s, the Crown Court sat in the Shire Hall on High Pavement.[1] However, as the number of court cases in Nottingham grew, it became necessary to commission a more substantial courthouse for criminal matters. The site selected by the Lord Chancellor's Department on Canal Street was occupied by a row of shops (including a baker's shop owned by the amateur astronomer, Thomas Bush)[2] and an old canal-side factory.[3]
The new building was designed by architects, P. Harvard, K. Bates and J. Mansell, on behalf of the Property Services Agency and faced with buff stone.[4] The building was opened in two phases: the first phase, which cost £2.2 million,[5] opened in 1980[6] and the second phase, which cost £6.2 million,[5] opened in 1988.[7] The design involved a glass atrium which projected forward, connecting two wings which were faced with extensive expanses of stone. Internally, the building was equipped with nine courtrooms.[8]
High-profile cases
[edit | edit source]- February 1984 – Conviction of Norman Smith for the murder of Susan Renhard[9]
- May 1993 – Conviction of nurse Beverley Allitt for the murder and attempted murder of 13 children at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital[10]
- July 2004 – Conviction of Alan Pennell, 16, for the murder of Luke Walmsley, 14[11]
- May 2005 – Conviction of Peter Williams for the murder of jeweller Marian Bates[12]
- October 2005 – Conviction of Mark Kelly and Junior Andrews for the murder of schoolgirl Danielle Beccan[13]
- December 2009 – Conviction of Susan Bacon, Michael Bacon and Peter Jacques for the murder of gamekeeper Nigel Bacon[14]
- January 2010 – Conviction of Stewart Hutchinson, jailed for life for the murder of Colette Aram[15]
- January 2011 – Collapse of the trial of climate protestors charged with conspiring to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station[16]
- April 2013 – Conviction of Mick Philpott and others for the manslaughter of six of his children in a house fire in Derby[17]
- June 2014 – Conviction of Susan Edwards and husband Christopher Edwards for the murders of her parents in 1998, both sentenced to 25 years[18]
- July 2012 and July 2015 – Conviction of Charlotte Collinge in 2012 for the murder of husband Clifford Collinge, sentenced to 23 years with two accomplices both sentenced to 18 years.[19] Following a 2015 re-trial, Charlotte Collinge was cleared and accomplices found guilty with sentences re-imposed[20]
- January 2024 – Valdo Calocane, the perpetrator of 2023 Nottingham attacks, sentenced to be detained at Ashworth Hospital for the rest of his life after he killed three victims.[21]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ ITN Digital News Archive
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- ^ Mansfield couple jailed for life for murdering parents itv.com, 20 June 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2021
- ^ Clifford Collinge murder: Wife jailed for 23 years BBC News, 31 July 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2021
- ^ Clifford Collinge widow Charlotte cleared after murder retrial BBC News, 3 July 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2021
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Court details from HM Courts & Tribunals Service
- See Nottingham Crown Court on Google Street View