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‘My stalker has been held to account. He hasn’t gotten away with it’: Prosecutors stay ahead of stalkers in a digital age as a victim shares her story.

A woman who was stalked by her former partner has spoken out for the first time during National Stalking Awareness Week, urging others to recognise the signs of stalking and report it.
Press Release Domestic abuse CPS

Former teacher guilty of sexual abuse more than 40 years ago

A former teacher at Junior King’s School in Kent has been found guilty of sexually abusing a school pupil more than 40 years ago.Dennis Fletcher was a resident boarding master between 1978 and 1997 and had already pleaded guilty to sexually abusing another boy during the same time at the school…
Press Release Sexual offences CPS South East

Man sentenced to life for rape and assault in religiously motivated attack

A man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 13-and-a-half years for the religiously aggravated rape and assault of a Sikh woman in her home in Walsall.John Ashby, 32, of no fixed address, was sentenced today (24 April 2026) at Birmingham Crown Court. He pleaded guilty on the second day of…
Press Release Sexual offences CPS West Midlands

Three men guilty of raping woman on Brighton beach

Three men have been found guilty of raping a woman on Brighton beach, including one man who did not participate in the attack, but filmed it.Ibrahim Alshafe and Abdulla Ahmadi raped the woman in the early hours of 4 October 2025, while Karin Al-Danasurt filmed what was happening and sent it to…
Press Release Sexual offences CPS South East

Completed rape prosecutions reach highest level in a decade, new data shows

New data released by the Crown Prosecution Service today shows levels of victim attrition are falling and that prosecutors completed more rape prosecutions than at any point in the last decade.Completed rape prosecutions rose by almost a fifth (18.6%) in the latest quarter, as prosecutors work on…
News Item Sexual offences CPS
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Multiple rapist who deliberately transmitted HIV jailed

A Washington man who raped and deliberately transmitted HIV to other men has been sentenced to life imprisonment today at Newcastle Crown Court.
Press Release Sexual offences Violent crime CPS North East

Former teacher guilty of sexual abuse at a children’s home in the 1970s

A man has been found guilty of sexual assaults on young boys at a children’s home in Hastings in the 1970s.
Press Release Sexual offences CPS South East

Further charge following Golders Green ambulance fires

The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised a further charge following a police investigation into an alleged arson attack in Golders Green.Three people were previously charged in connection to the incident.Frank Ferguson, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime and Counter Terrorism…
Press Release Terrorism CPS

UPDATED WITH SENTENCE: Nursery worker jailed and company fined after death of toddler

Toddler Noah Sibanda died at Fairytales Day Nursery on 9 December 2022 having been physically restrained face down on a cushion, with a blanket over his face and a leg placed over him.
Press Release CPS West Midlands

Police officers charged following fatal road collision in south east London

The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised criminal charges against two police officers following a fatal road collision involving a pregnant woman in south east London in 2024.A 38-year-old woman was killed after her vehicle was involved in a collision with a police vehicle on Eltham Road on 17…
Press Release Driving offences CPS

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