Gareth Crickmer

An abusive man threatened to assault a female hotel employee after a co-worker told him there was no room at the inn.

A man was disarmed by a police officer and security staff as he wandered the corridors of Sunderland Royal Hospital with a 12inch blade is facing jail.

A man has been ordered to attend a course aimed at reducing domestic abuse.

The incident happened outside of the criminal’s Hebburn property.

A serial thief who assaulted four shop workers while committing thefts to feed her cocaine habit has been spared jail – after a last-minute change of mind by a judge.

A joyrider took police on a 70mph chase through residential streets in before jamming his car in a footpath and fleeing.

The criminal was told to refrain from swearing and shouting in public after the South Tyneside incident.

The high-speed chase started at South Shields seafront.

A man without pants legged it into a street in hot pursuit of his ex-girlfriend in what a court heard was “another tale of everyday life in Sunderland”.

A woman has appeared in court charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a cyclist died following an incident in Sunderland.