Criminal cases that the Crown Prosecution Service take to court are in the news every day. This section also covers many issues related to our work, including violence against women and girls, hate crime, support for victims and witnesses, statistics, and speeches by the Director of Public Prosecutions and other senior staff.
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You can find our latest news stories here and search for older stories. You can also find more information about high-profile cases and the work of the CPS.
The Crown Prosecution Service has today announced that six immigration officers have been charged with various offences including conspiracy to steal and misconduct in public office following allegations that they stole property from migrants and laundered money.Malcolm McHaffie, Head of the CPS…
Charges for strangulation and suffocation have surged since the offence was introduced three years ago, according to CPS data. Latest CPS figures reveal that charges rose from 1,483 in 2022–23 to 8,545 in 2024–25 – nearly a sixfold increase. In the first quarter of 2025–26 alone, 2,656…
This is a joint Wiltshire Police/CPS press release Six men have been charged with more than 60 sexual offences against one woman over a 13-year period.Philip Young, 49, formerly from Swindon but now living in Enfield, has been charged with 56 sexual offences, including multiple counts of…
Two men have been jailed today for raping teenage girls in Rotherham more than two decades ago.The Crown Prosecution Service’s dedicated Organised Child Sexual Abuse Unit prosecuted Kessur Ajaib, 44, and Mohammed Makhmood, 43, following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) as part of…
A serial conman who posed as a Swiss banker and a MI6 spy to defraud his victim, who was left penniless, has been ordered to pay back £125,000 to her or face more time in jail.Mark Acklom, 52, deceived the victim into thinking they were in a committed relationship and would get married, so that she…
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A major update to the joint Media Protocol has been published today, reinforcing the principle of open justice and supporting greater transparency in the reporting of criminal proceedings.Developed collaboratively by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), policing bodies and media representatives,…
A former teacher at a school in Surrey, previously convicted of sexually abusing two pupils, has been found guilty of a series of further sexual assaults on a third pupil. Jonathan Marshall, 75, who worked at St. Dunstan’s Middle Catholic School in Woking, targeted the boy in the late 1980s,…
Three fund managers have been convicted of a large-scale fraud which amounted to losses of £11.4 million which were meant for the people of Libya.Frederic Marino, 56, was found guilty of fraud by abuse of position of trust. Yoshika Ohmura, 47, was also found guilty of fraud by abuse of position of…
A man who drove his car into the crowd at Liverpool FC’s victory parade injuring 134 people, has been jailed for 21 years and six months. The judge sentencing Paul Doyle at Liverpool Crown Court was shown distressing dashcam footage from Doyle’s Ford Galaxy from 26 May 2025.Doyle was speeding,…
Families were denied the dignity of proper care for their deceased loved ones after two funeral directors stored bodies in unrefrigerated conditions.Richard Elkin, 49, and Hayley Bell, 42, were convicted today following the discovery in December 2023 of serious failings at their Gosport funeral…
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Media protocol
To ensure greater openness in the reporting of criminal proceedings, the CPS, the police and media representatives developed a joint protocol for working together. We are currently in the process of updating the protocol.
