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Saif Shaikh, 20, pictured, was told he was banned from the road after he pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Manchester Crown Court. Judge Timothy Smith adjourned sentencing until June 14 after Shaikh's lawyer asked for a delay to allow his client to finish his university exams. Moments after being handed the interim driving ban, Shaikh was seen driving off in his Volkswagen Golf GTi

A teenager who threw cheese at a severely allergic boy, 13, apologised to his parents during an inquest into the boy's death today. He said: 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for what I did'. Karanbir Singh Cheema (pictured left in his school uniform), 13, suffered a serious reaction at a school in Greenford, West London, just before midday on June 28, 2017. He was also severely allergic to wheat, gluten, eggs and nuts and suffered from asthma and atopic eczema, an inquest at Poplar Coroner's Court was told today. One of Karan's school friends who knew he had a dairy allergy, gave another boy the piece of cheese, before he was overheard saying 'Karan is allergic to cheese', the inquest heard. The other boy then threw it at Karan who went into anaphylactic shock at around 11.30am at William Perkin Church of England High School (inset), the hearing was told. He was unconscious as medics battled to save his life. He died at Great Ormond Street hospital 10 days later surrounded by his family (pictured outside a previous hearing at St Pancras Coroner’s Court, London, right).

Baptist minister's son Benjamin Field (bottom right), 28, and magician Martyn Smith (bottom left), 32, allegedly plotted the deaths of Peter Farquhar (inset left), 69, and Ann Moore-Martin (inset right), 83, and tried to make them look like an accident or suicide using drugs, alcohol or suffocation. They have gone on trial at Oxford Crown Court accused of murder, conspiracy to murder and fraud, while Benjamin Field's younger brother Tom, 24, also faces an allegation of fraud. The pensioners lived three doors from each other in the picturesque village of Maids Moreton, in Buckinghamshire. Mr Farquhar, an author and guest lecturer at the University of Buckingham, died in October 2015, while retired teacher Miss Moore-Martin passed away in May 2017.

Feezan Hameed Choudhary, 28 (mugshot pictured inset) was jailed for 11 years in 2016 for spearheading a 'vishing' scam that tricked 750 RBS and Lloyds customers out of a total of £113million. Detectives nicknamed him 'The Voice' after they discovered how he would put on Scottish, Welsh and posh English accents when he called victims' landlines and posed as fraud experts from their banks. He has been hauled back to Southwark Crown Court for a confiscation hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act. The hearing was told he raked in £1.5million a month from the scam, splashing out on Bentleys, Lamborghinis and flying car cleaners 8,000 miles from Lahore, Pakistan to where he lived in Glasgow to polish his vehicles.

A homeowner has been left unable to sell his £160,000 house after a neighbour was granted planning permission to build a two-storey extension. Neal Robinson (right) has been unable to shift the property in Blackburn, Lancashire (bottom left) as he can touch his neighbour's extension by just leaning out of the window. The 52-year-old (top left outside the property) had first raised concerns in April last year, just four months after the property hit the market. His neighbours had originally started the building work in 2017. Extension work was completed in July last year and Mr Robinson now says it has put people off buying his home.

Kimberly Abell, 33, (pictured, left and right) of Longford, Coventry, seduced the 14-year-old after getting drunk at a teenager's birthday party. A court heard she drank half a bottle of vodka, half a bottle of Disaronno liqueur and shots before asking the schoolboy: 'Aren't you going to f*** me?' When the boy's mum reported the incident to police months later she was arrested and charged with two counts of sexual activity with a child. After a trial at Warwick Crown Court she was found not guilty of both charges. Jurors heard Abell admitted having sex with the boy at the party in July 2016 but claimed she believed he was over 18.

A mother died in hospital less than two weeks after being attacked by another patient with a cup, as she slept in her bed. Eileen Bunting (left) had been a patient at the Hull Royal Infirmary (bottom centre) and was recovering from having a stent fitted in her bile duct. The 64-year-year-old was said to have been on the road to recovery when she was attacked by a fellow patient she had been sharing a room with. Prior to the attack patients said the patient who attacked Eileen had become irritated with her snoring. Eileen's husband Philip (right with Eileen in 2005), to whom she was married for 47-years said his wife declined rapidly following the attack. Explaining the days before the attack, Philip said: 'Apparently the night before, another patient said the patient that attacked her was getting agitated at Eileen's snoring.

Guitarist Rowland Gould, nicknamed Boon, left, and circled in the 1980s, was discovered by police at his home in Dorset this week, former band mate and Level 42 frontman Mark King confirmed on Twitter. Mr King, pictured second from right, posted a heartfelt tribute to his bandmate on Twitter, inset. Mr Gould wrote the band's best known song Lessons in Love which was released in 1986. Mr was in Level 42 with his younger brother Phil, right, and Mike Lindup, third right.

Career conman Marc Marshall - who uses a number of different aliases - emptied a metal bottle full of corrosive liquid over himself at Inner London Crown court. The 54-year-old was being sentenced for cashing £135,000 in fake cheques before he had to be hosed down by firefighters as his face burned. Witnesses heard him scream in agony and his face 'went white' before he was taken to hospital where is currently in a critical condition in hospital. A female custody officer who was guarding him in the dock was treated at the scene. In 2016, it was reported that Adam Johnson's family hired him after he was jailed for six years for intimately touching a girl of 15. The family of the footballer (right, with his then girlfriend Stacey Flounders)- who has now been released - allegedly made a stream of payments to a him - then using the name Mark Hill-Wood - who promised he could unearth vital evidence in his favour, but they severed ties when they realised he was not delivering.

The clip shows a white van surrounded by rubbish in the middle of the night with two men getting more waste from inside the vehicle to dump nearby. A man then appears, walks up to them and starts wrestling one of the flytippers to the ground before hitting him with a piece of his own rubbish. Moments later a green tractor with a forklift comes into view and charges towards their van, pushing it onto its side. The incident is believed to have taken place just after 12am today in Essex.

Joe Clarke (left) opened the batting for Nottinghamshire as Alex Hepburn (right) started the first day of his five year jail sentence for raping a girl while she slept. Clarke (inset) gave evidence at the recent trial of Hepburn who was sentenced to five years in jail on Tuesday for raping a woman while she was asleep. Clarke had had consensual sex with the woman earlier in the evening, as part of a 'game' to sleep with an many women as possible. Fans watching the One Day Cup match at Worcester County Cricket ground appeared unfazed by his involvement in the trial.

Police believe 12-year-old Muriel Drinkwater (left) might have been a victim of a notorious serial killer when she was raped and murdered in 1946. And they now hope a stain on Muriel's coat will link her death to serial killer Harold Jones (right) - a murderer known as Jack the Stripper. Jones killed two young girls when he was just 15 and was jailed for 20 years. But he was later released and served in World War II before his military career ended in 1946. And four months after Jones left the army Muriel was raped and murdered as she walked home from a school bus in Penllergaer, Swansea. Historian Neil Milkins has spent 12 years examining Muriel's murder - and thinks Jones could well be her killer. Pictured inset top: The gun used to shoot dead Muriel and inset bottom: the search party hunting for evidence after her murder.

Simon Hayes (top centre) left Roger Curry (bottom right) with paramedics outside Hereford Hospital, claiming he had found the 78-year-old dementia sufferer in a country lane. Hayes, who was dressed in a bogus Army uniform, refused to give his own name, saying it was a security risk because he was working at the SAS base in the city. The 53-year-old had stripped Mr Curry of his passport and other papers and dressed him in British clothing to further obscure his identity. Hospital staff could not work out who their patient was and Mr Curry spoke his name just once – after he was moved to a care home in the nearby village of Credenhill. It was only when Debbie Cocker (left), 48, saw a picture from a 1950s American school year book of an 'Earl Roger Curry' who looked like the pensioner that his identity was discovered. Pictured top right: Mr Curry's son Kevin with his mother Mary Jo Curry.

Republican US congressman Mario Diaz-Balart claims Russia has already installed nuclear missiles in Venezuela, hours after the country almost descended into civil war. When asked whether he thought Russia would put nuclear weapons in Venezuela he replied: 'What I'm suggesting, is that they already have'. Mike Pompeo (left inset) said that President Trump 'has been very clear' that he is prepared to take military action in Venezuela 'if that's what's required', raising the prospect of conflict with Russia which is a staunch ally of President Nicolas Maduro and is thought to have mercenaries in the country protecting him. Pompeo spoke out Wednesday as opposition leader Juan Guaido (main picture), who America is backing, urged demonstrators on to the streets for a second day, after he declared the start of a 'military uprising' on Tuesday. That quickly descended into a series of violence skirmishes on the streets of the capital Caracas and elsewhere that left at least one dead and 100 injured.

Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn has married his long-term consort and given her the title Queen Suthida just days before his coronation, in a surprise move. Photos showed Suthida Vajiralongkorn na Ayudhya, a former Thai Airways flight attendant, laying on the floor as she was given a gift by the king during the marriage ceremony. She 'legally married' the king in accordance with royal traditions, an announcement in the Royal Gazette said. The relationship between the King and his new Queen has been compared to the famous musical The King and I which follows strong-willed, widowed schoolteacher Anna Leonowens, who arrives in Bangkok at the request of the King of Siam to tutor his children.

Emperor Akihito (left, top right) abdicated the throne in an official ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday where he thanked people for supporting his 30-year rule. But the 85-year-old said his age and ill-health - he has been treated for prostate cancer and heart problems - had left him unable to perform his duties. He will officially depart the throne at midnight before rule passes to Crown Prince Naruhito (inset), ahead of an official ceremony on Wednesday morning. Akihito started the day with a series of private religious ceremonies (bottom right) during which he informed the gods of his decision to depart the throne, the first time in 200 years that an emperor has done so.

A high school sprinter has posted the fastest 100-meter dash time of any American under the age of 20. Matthew Boling (inset), an 18-year-old senior at Strake Jesuit College Prep in Houston, ran the event in just 9.98 seconds at Texas's Region III-6A track and field meet. The time was not only a personal best, but a new high school record for all conditions. Unfortunately for Boling, it won't count as the official record because he had a 4.2 mph tailwind at his back, according to Yahoo. The official 100-meter high school dash record belongs to Trentavis Friday, who recorded a 10-second flat mark in North Carolina in 2014. Boling's 9.98 mark was no fluke. He was previously clocked at 10.22 seconds earlier in March and in the 200-meter dash, he's posted an impressive time of 20.58 seconds. For comparison's sake, Jamaica's Usain Bolt is the current world record holder in both the 100- and 200-meter dash, with times of 9.58 seconds and 19.19 seconds, respectively. Boling plans on attending the University of Georgia in the fall, and then hopes to make it on the U.S. Olympic team ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.