Old Bailey court records go online

The details of thousands of trials, including those of Oscar Wilde and notorious murderer Dr Hawley Crippen, have been made available to search online.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey website has added accounts of 100,000 trials from 1834 to 1913.
The additional material means free access to a total of 197,745 trials at London's central criminal court, covering the 239 years of published Proceedings, starting in 1674.
There are also biographical details of about 3,000 men and women.
Project directors say the new trials have a different character to the earlier period, with fewer cases of animal theft, highway robbery and shoplifting, but more cases of crimes involving deception including embezzlement, forgery and fraud.
There are fewer murders but more rapes and more cases of minor violence, such as assault, threatening behaviour and wounding.
The site includes brief details of the 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde, then 40, who was indicted for "unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons" and sentenced to two years of hard labour after being found guilty.
And there are extensive records of the 1910 trial of Hawley Crippen, an American doctor who was hanged for the murder and dismemberment of his British wife.
But the lesser known cases are of equal interest.
According to the records, on April 28 1742 Edmund Larrat, of Stepney, was sentenced to death for stealing a sheep belonging to Thomas Wigans.