Alex Storey

A youth worker who had sex with a teenager after she took him on secret cinema dates and sent him thousands of texts has been locked up.

The defendant and the youth exchanged more than 17,000 messages using WhatsApp over a period of two months.

Afzal Miah began a relationship with his South Shields victim on the internet but his behaviour soon turned "controlling and demanding."

The court heard the incident was caught on dashcam footage of an ambulance which was responding to an emergency call.

A Hebburn-born businessman has been jailed for sexual activity with a child.

A pensioner accused of stabbing a man to death outside a sandwich shop will face trial this summer.

A Vietnamese national who acted as a gardener at a cannabis farm in Alnwick has been jailed.

A murder suspect accused of beating a man to death has appeared in court.

A driver carried out "street justice" when he fatally attacked a pedestrian after they stepped out in front his car, murder jurors have heard.

Christopher Seymour, of South Shields, sent explicit message and images to a decoy, whom he believed to be a 14-year-old boy.