He is scheduled to go on trial this summer for the murder of De Montfort University student Khaleed Oladipo Khaleed Oladipo A young man accused of the fatal stabbing of a De Montfort University student appeared in court today (Monday, May 11). Khaleed Oladipo, 22, passed away after being stabbed on Oxford Street in Leicester city centre on Tuesday, (February 3). Following his death at Leicester Royal Infirmary, 18-year-old Harper Dennis was arrested and charged with his murde

Twenty-two men face a total of more than 200 years in prison after an encrypted chat platform they used to organise and facilitate the supply of industrial amounts of cocaine and heroin across the UK was dismantled. The men, aged between 26 and 58, were all sentenced at Leicester Crown Court on Monday and Tuesday (9 and 10 January) after pleading guilty between April 2021 and August 2022 to conspiracy to supply class A drugs. (From top left to top right) Ramone Anozie, Tanvee

Two men today (Tuesday 15 March) have been found guilty of murdering a man who was found seriously injured in the boot of a car. Renaldo Baptiste, 35 and Jeffrey Carew, 22 were both convicted following a trial at Leicester Crown Court spanning several weeks. A third man, 25-year-old Jurrat Khan, was found guilty of manslaughter. In the early hours of 12 April last year, patrol officers, who were attending a different incident, saw a red Vauxhall Astra being driven at speed an

A man, who helped an East Midlands gang smuggle millions of pounds worth of drugs into the country from the Netherlands, has been jailed. In September last year, following an investigation by the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU), we revealed 22 members of the organised crime group had been jailed for more than 200 years between them for the parts they played in class A and B drug conspiracies between 2017 and 2018. A recent trial at Leicester Crown Court examined

A 19-year-old man has been found guilty of murder following a trial at Leicester Crown Court and has been sentenced to life in prison, to serve a minimum of 13 years. Green Lane Road Leicester Omer Nur Omer Nur, of Chartley Road, Leicester, was involved in a fight with victim Usman Patel, 32, in Green Lane Road in Evington in the early hours of 18 July last year. Usman was stabbed more than 20 times and Nur left the scene. Residents on Green Lane Road called for an ambulance,

A man who bundled a woman into a van in Mountsorrel minutes before she was found seriously injured on the A6 has been convicted of kidnap. Chay Bowskill, 20, was found guilty yesterday (25 January) following a trial at Leicester Crown Court. Bowskill, of Empingham Drive, Syston, was also convicted of coercive and controlling behaviour and perverting the course of justice. He was found not guilty of a charge of section 18 grievous bodily harm. Chay Bowskill A second man, Rocc