Crown Court
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
Season 3 Episodes
After suspecting that irregular betting patterns had taken place at a greyhound stadium, bookmaker Ronald Charles refuse…
Dog track cashier Doreen Tring explains how the accused, Bill Broad was blocking the window so nobody else could place a…
Bill Broad tells the court that Oakmoor was a minor betting scam, to get even with the bookie but too many people came t…
A Fulchester man has pleaded guilty to obtaining money by deception but now faces a more serious charge of arson, which …
Peter Elgar's former business partner Gerald Stroud is called as a surprise witness. Elgar told him his landlord was goi…
Jeremy Parsons QC queries Peter Elgar over the 5 gallon drum ,of petrol, found in the back of his shop. Mr. Justice Mitc…
The bursar of a charitable school for epileptics is accused of misusing its funds by making a risky investment, and usin…
Sir Richard Cresswell gives evidence unaware his wife, Lady Virginia has let slip that it was she who advised the defend…
Major James Fowkes says charitable money could be given to his disabled daughter. His wife says he told her got the mone…
Pakistani housing landlord Muhammed Aslam is accused of demanding money with menaces from a number of illegal immigrants…
Fisherman Thomas Wheeler tells, the court, how Mohammed Aslam asked him to bring in eight illegal immigrants. The price …
Mohammed Aslam is forced to explain a two year jail sentence he served in Pakistan. Marcus Golding asks why he waited th…
Following relegation Fulchester Rovers manager Aleksander Gruda is sacked. However he claims players Skelhorne, McIver a…
Barney Skelhorn's ex-wife Margaret tells how she overheard the three players discussing how they would have to be carefu…
Prosecuter Sara Lewis highlights the discipline issues the three Fulchester United players had with their manager. Apple…
After surviving the crash of a light aircraft in which two passengers were killed, the pilot of the aircraft is suing a …
Alfred Donahue from the investigation team says that there was a carbon monoxide leak in the cabin which would brought o…
Mrs. Simon gives a scathing attack on Edward Cummings. She says she was aware he was prone to epileptic fits. So after t…
Phil McDowell has been deserted by his wife and daughter, has been sacked from his job as a bank clerk and is now on tri…
Fiona Sumner, the 14-year-old girl the defendant allegedly abducted tells the court that McDowell wanted break the recor…
Philip McDowell's son Robert tells the court the drive to Scotland was Fiona Sumner's idea. She wanted to visit her fath…
Irene Rutland faces charges of theft, criminal damage and wounding a police officer. The officer was called to a restaur…
Linda Brightson accuses the defendant of taking her handbag at the Carpenter's Arms. Mrs. Rutland denies the charge, cla…
Irene Rutland, attempts to get the two assault charges dropped, by saying she was unaware she was arrested when she hit …
Charles Oldbury died in the bathroom of the old people's home where he lived. Dr. Fulmer who attended the scene thought …
The Judge tells the jury to disregard the implication made by the defence that Dr. Fulmer is to blame. Insp. McGovern di…
Margaret Povey stuns the court when she admits that Leonard Saxton, the main benefactor of Charles Oldbury's Will was he…
Two mountaineers died in an unsuccessful attempt to scale the Choga Sar in the Himalayas. That ill-fated expedition is n…
Dr. Abel tells the court about the benefits of oxygen at altitude but refuses to be drawn on Dennis Wainright's case. Ca…
Joseph Berenson says climber Stephen McPhail had been dead for days despite a lack of evidence. John Lloyd accuses Bowma…
James Mallard signed a confession admitting that he had stolen a car belonging to his doctor with whom he and his family…
Det. Sgt. Charles Atrass continues under cross examination. The defence claims there was no evidence to hold James Malla…
The court erupts when James Mallard and his mother are caught using sign language to bypass the rule of law. Mallard's f…
Rock musician Lance Porter is suing his father Reverend Fortescue Porter in a civil case. He composed a rock opera calle…
Business adviser Charles Plenderbooth witnessed Lance and his father talking about the copyright and royalties and getti…
Charity boss Mrs. Harper-Frost says the vicar was a friend and gave her control of his son's work prior to the meeting b…
Terence Finlay was stabbed to death at the house where he lodged with Beryl Jackson and Gerald Prosser. Only one - or bo…
Beryl Jackson admits she was a former prostitute and Gerald Prosser was her pimp. Charles Lotterby claims Terence Findla…
Gerald Prosser says Jackson and Finlay lived as a couple until he moved in as a lodger. Jackson bled Finlay dry and when…
Wealthy local personality Malcolm Winfield was mugged walking through a park late at night with Ronald Hamilton whom he …
Sylvia Spencer visited Dr. Jonathan Francis seeking to terminate her pregnancy - she had been deserted by her boyfriend …
After years of trouble conceiving, Dr. Francis suggested adoption to Mrs. Hine. He later told her that the girl who woul…
Dr. Francis denies that Sylvia Spencer's baby was dependent on £2,000. Counsel says he refused to abort Sylvia's baby so…
On Valentine's Day in 1956 a young woman and alleged witch - Olive Rudy - was found dead in a field, the victim of an ap…
Chief Supt. Duncan arrested Strafford following a tip off. Dr. Stone say the murderer was likely a man. Recently found b…
Occult author Magnus Benjamin says pictures of Olive Rudy appear to show ritual murder. Tom Strafford says he left Betty…
Doubt is thrown on Emma Lakeland's account about being held captive by Grigori Petrov, as she could have escaped. Inspec…
