PROSECUTORS have been issued new legal guidance on the use of offensive banners, slogans, chants or symbols to recognise the changing national and international context and increase in hate crime ...

A father has been sentenced for killing his three-month-old son after shaking him violently while caring for him. Gareth Stark, 38 and of Stafford, was sentenced today (15 May 2026) at Birmingham ...

A mother and her former partner have been sentenced for their roles in the death of a four-year-old boy, who died two years after being seriously injured. Zoe Coutts, 35, and Scott O'Connor, 36, were ...

Religious Hate Crime: In the year to September 2025, the CPS prosecuted 658 cases flagged as religious hate crimes with a charge rate of 79%, a conviction rate of 79.2% and uplifted sentences in 79.1% ...

Chung Biu Yuen, 65, a former Hong Kong police officer now employed at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London, and ...

Four people have been convicted of their involvement in the murder of Danny Cahalane, who died following an acid attack in Plymouth. Abdulrasheed Adedoja and Israel Augustus were convicted of murder ...

A former teacher has been jailed after taking covert photos of children in a leisure centre changing room as part of an incident which led to his persistent grooming and abuse of children being ...

The couple at first denied that they had been seeking marriages, but pleaded guilty to carrying out conduct to cause a child under 18 to enter a marriage on 17 February. They were today, 15 May, ...

Bethan David, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service's Counter Terrorism Division, said: “We have decided to charge Dominic Charles Turner with arson with intent to endanger life following an attack at ...

The Crown Prosecution Service has today announced Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 57, and Scott Drewitt-Barlow, 32, both from Danbury, Essex, have been charged with arranging or facilitating travel of another ...

A child abuser who attempted to evade justice by faking severe illness has been sentenced after the Crown Prosecution Service and police combined to prove he was lying about his condition. John ...

The co-founder of clothing company Superdry has been jailed for eight years today for raping a woman after a night out. James ...