Every day across Nottinghamshire and the wider East Midlands criminals face court for a variety of reasons.
Low-level offences are dealt with at magistrates' courts, and more serious crimes are sent to crown courts, sometimes to face a trial by jury.
Each day, our court reporter Martin Naylor is covering cases across the region, picking the most serious and ones flagged to us by our readers.
This November has seen a dramatic range of cases heard in Nottinghamshire, including despicable thefts, brutal violence and drug offences
Here are the biggest cases we've covered this month. To read all the cases we've covered, head to our courts page.
Rexy Reyes, a Nottingham nurse at the Queen's Medical Centre , who helped himself to £6,500 belonging to an elderly dementia-patient in his care, was jailed for 18 months.
Following a three-day trial at Nottingham Crown Court, a jury took five hours to find the 52-year-old guilty of two counts of theft.
They heard how the defendant, of Aspley, took the victim's bank card from a locker he had the key to and then "maxed out" what he could withdraw from her account on 22 consecutive days.
And, in an impact statement, the nephew of the woman, who was in her 70s and who has now died, told how he has "lost confidence" in the health system as a result.
Jailing Reyes, Judge James Sampson said: "This was a mean offence which was motivated by greed and which took place over several weeks.
"You deliberately targeted your victim based on her vulnerability - that being an elderly dementia patient.
"This was a breach of trust which the public are entitled to place on nurses whose job is to care for the most vulnerable.
"Your actions lead to a loss in confidence by the public on the nursing profession and that is significant because this is a profession whose sole purpose is to care for those with needs.
"There was no remorse and you have heard about the impact this has had on the victim's family."
The trial was told how Reyes took the card from the purse of the victim, who was in her late 70s, after she was admitted to ward B47 at the Queen's Medical Centre where he worked in early 2020.
As well as the jail term, the judge ordered the defendant, of Broxtowe Lane, to pay £6,450 compensation to the victim's family and to pay £4,380 prosecution costs.
Nottingham drugs kingpin Vejay Samuel carried on running his lucrative illegal enterprise while living the high life on the run in Thailand.
Nottingham Crown Court heard how the 30-year-old fled to the other side of the world in a bid to avoid detection and prison.
He and his gang flooded the streets of Nottingham with thousands of pounds worth of cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin and cannabis.
Using two dedicated drug phone lines, the group peddled the drugs they'd sourced from Yorkshire across the city, between August 2022 and November 2023.
Samuels was in charge throughout the conspiracy's entirety and spent eight months in the country living a life of luxury with his girlfriend, Hannah Cwynar, with the duo splashing the cash on an array of fancy apartments and expensive activities.
He was detained back in England on his birthday in January 2024.
A dozen people would ultimately be implicated in the scheme
Eleven of the defendants were sentenced this month to a combined 84 years in prison.
Lyndon Wilson, 38, of Yates Gardens, Top Valley, will remain in custody until his own separate sentencing hearing at the same court on 30 January.
Detective Constable Emma Grimley, of Nottinghamshire Police's Serious Organised Crime Unit, said: "This was an organised group that conspired together to distribute large amounts of controlled drugs across the Nottingham area for a lengthy period of time.
"While this was going on, those at the top of the group - namely ringleader Vejay Samuels - lived a life of luxury, using the proceeds raised by their drug dealing."
A father's life has been 'utterly devastated' by a revenge bottle attack in Nottingham city centre .
Nottingham Crown Court was told how Abubakarr Haruna jammed the weapon "as hard as he could" into the "utterly defenceless" victim's cheek before running away and trying to change his appearance.
In an impact statement, the dad told how he has chosen to tell his children the permanent scar he now has from nearly 100 stitches came from "falling over".
And the judge, who sentenced the homeless defendant on what was his 39th birthday, told him how "the streets of Nottingham have yet again been used as a battleground".
Handing him a sentence totalling 10 years and eight months, Judge Stuart Rafferty KC said: "When he was utterly defenceless with his arms by his side, you jammed that bottle as hard as you could into the side of his face.
"His face was left so badly severed that every single layer of his skin was damaged.
"Out on the streets, you are dangerous because the reality is that when you are out on the street, if anybody crosses you, you are not able to let it lie.
"This was a revenge attack by you, and the effect on him has been utterly devastating.
"No amount of plastic surgery is going to repair the permanent scar caused by you.
"The streets of Nottingham have yet again been used as a battleground."
The offence took place in Nottingham city centre in the early hours of August 11 this year.
Haruna, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon.
He has 22 previous convictions for 39 offences, including GBH, and two previous convictions for possession of offensive weapons.
Nottingham criminal Stephen Hind, who has an astonishing 67 convictions for 165 offences, was twice caught exposing himself to women.
On the first occasion, the 39-year-old was seen touching himself sexually by a woman as she looked out of her window.
Then, four days after being given an opportunity to avoid a prison term with a suspended sentence, he carried out the same lewd act in front of a female police officer.
Jailing the defendant for a total of 22 months at Nottingham Crown Court, Judge Julie Warburton said: "On the first offence, you were shouting at her from outside her house, and she looked out.
"She heard you saying that you loved her, but then she saw you touching yourself (sexually) with a can of alcohol in your hand.
"You were arrested for that and handed a sexual harm prevention order in August.
"Four days later, you committed the second set of offences, which involved shoplifting wine from a Tesco store, having already stolen a bottle of wine earlier from an Iceland store.
"While you were in custody, you made sexual remarks at a female police officer who then observed you exposing yourself, and she told you to 'put it away'.
"I have read her victim impact statement in which she says what you did made her feel uneasy and that she should not have to be subjected to this kind of treatment.
"It is a very sad state of affairs, given that you had worked in the retail industry in a management role for many years.
"I am told you now want help from rehab and that you should be given a chance.
"But you were given a chance last time and breached it only four days later.
"I have no confidence you will take hold of the mantle now."
The first offence took place outside the victim's address in Hyson Green , on April 19, this year.
The second set of offences took place at a police custody suite four days after Hind had been handed a 10-month suspended sentence for other offences and after he'd been arrested for shoplifting.
The defendant, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to charges of indecent exposure, theft, breaching a sexual harm prevention order and breaching a suspended sentence order.
Hind will remain on the sex offender register for the next 10 years and on the ongoing eight-year sexual harm prevention order.
Fraudster David Jenkins stole more than £100,000 from an elderly Nottinghamshire woman's bank account to pay off debts and fund online gambling.
The 57-year-old was jailed this month after stealing at least £149,000 from the Newark care home resident, in her 90s, between March 2021 and May 2023.
He had previously been granted power of attorney over the vulnerable woman's money, meaning he could make financial decisions on her behalf.
However, it became apparent he was abusing his position of trust when the victim moved into a care home.
Staff at the home warned the elderly woman that she had been left with so little money that she would be forced to apply for council support to keep her afloat.
Jenkins later claimed that many of the chunks of stolen cash were in fact mutually-agreed loans that would be repaid in instalments.
The stolen money had been spent on paying off debts, funding online gambling and other lifestyle expenses.
The defendant, of Rosebery Avenue, Boston, later pleaded guilty to one count of fraud by abuse of position and was sentenced to three years in prison.
Detective Constable Akil Kapasi said: "Assuming power of attorney for an elderly person is an immense responsibility that underscores the huge amount of trust placed in the person chosen.
"Jenkins abused that trust in the most appalling way and used this money to fund his own lifestyle.
"We were fortunate in this case that the victim had full capacity to contradict Jenkins' account and expose his lies.
"As he begins a significant jail sentence, I hope this case serves as a warning to others with power of attorney over the financial affairs of others.
"That money is for their benefit - not yours. If you decide to treat it as a personal slush fund and we find out, there can be very severe consequences indeed."
Four masked robbers who kidnapped a Nottingham student on the day he received his student loan, grabbed him from behind and frogmarched him to an alleyway, were all sent to prison.
Nottingham Crown Court was told how, once there, the quartet sealed the alley at both ends, went through his wallet and phone and drained his entire bank account of the money he'd just got that day.
In a victim impact statement the student, who was held at the scene of the crime for 45 minutes, told how he "came to Nottingham to better myself but now I wonder if I came to the wrong city as Nottingham is not safe".
Now the gang - Aqeel Hussain, Sefa Duzgun, Adeel Din and Oliver Sapounov, who were all Nottingham Trent University students themselves - have all been jailed.
Judge Michael Auty KC said: "This attack was, on any view, clearly planned and, in some regards, meticulously planned.
"It was done out of greed. He was grabbed from behind, put in a choke hold and told not to say anything.
"He was led away and taken into a secluded alleyway in the depths of St Ann's, which was secured at both ends, making him imprisoned there.
"He was told to give over his mobile phone and told, under threat, to give the details of his bank account.
"He was inevitably terrified and he chose compliance to discover how far his attackers were prepared to go.
"You thought, wrongly, you had transferred £18,000 but you knew, as you were all students at Nottingham Trent University and you knew this was the day student loan payments were moved into students' accounts.
"In the end, it turned out to be £1,500.36 from his bank account laundered through you, Din.
All four defendants either pleaded guilty or were found guilty of robbery, kidnap, false imprisonment and money laundering offences.