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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

A former imam who carried out a sustained campaign of sexual abuse against women and girls over more than a decade has been jailed. Abdul Halim Khan, 54, was sentenced to life imprisonment to serve a ...

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the main prosecuting authority in England and Wales. We work in partnership with all agencies in the criminal justice system, especially closely with the police, ...

The CPS maintains a watching brief in relation to all relevant feedback and information to help support more effective prosecution of hate crime. This includes the nature of offending and its impact, ...