HERE are some of the most notable cases heard at Worcester Crown Court over the last week:

Dumped boyfriend smashed up ex's car with rake in Worcester

Jilted boyfriend Billy Watts used a rake to smash the windows of his former partner's Vauxhall Corsa and harassed her with phone calls, at one point hiding behind a hedge and jumping out to confront her outside a Worcester school because he was angry she had dumped him.

The 23 year-old admitted harassment without violence and criminal damage, which placed him in breach of suspended sentence imposed for battery and possession of an offensive weapon.

He was ordered to pay more than £1,000 in compensation and costs.

Son of murder victim jailed for Jaguar Land Rover thefts

Sheldon Heppell, son of murdered Melanie Clark, was jailed for stealing thousands of pounds worth of Jaguar Land Rover car parts from his workplace to sell on to clear a drugs debt.

The 24 year-old was jailed for eight months for stealing parts from JLR Parts UK in Stoke Prior, near Bromsgrove.

The court heard the items were valued at £7,708 but with a sale price of £9,494 as they sold for more than the company paid for them. On one calculation the company claimed the loss was more than £30,000.

Woman jailed for causing death of 'gentle giant' boyfriend

Olivya Poole was jailed at Worcester Crown Court on Tuesday after she was convicted by a jury of causing death by dangerous driving following the fatal crash south west of Hereford.

The 25-year-old sped away from a pursuing police car and crashed off the road into the chain-link fence at the SAS camp, killing her passenger, 23-year-old boyfriend Liam Thomson.

A blood sample showed Poole had 2.7mg of cannabis per litre of blood in her system. The legal limit is 2mg.

She was jailed for five and a half years and banned from driving for five years.