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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A man, who was found guilty of murdering his wife in a double jeopardy case, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.Robert Rhodes was originally acquitted of killing his wife Dawn in June 2016, after he claimed at his original trial in 2017 that he and a child had been attacked and he had then…
An 18-year-old from Cwmbran has been sentenced after pleading guilty to possessing a terrorism document, following a thorough investigation by police and prosecution by the Crown Prosecution Service.Morgan Mckenzie's actions included researching violent attacks, discussing targeting an Oasis…
A 55-year-old Romanian truck driver has been jailed for 27 months today after 10 foreign nationals were found in the back of his truck in Dover.Dragos-Gabriel Geangalau was stopped on 21 November last year while trying to make a ferry crossing to France. The ten people in the back of his HGV…
Press ReleaseInternational and organised crimeCPSSouth East
Prosecutors are working on the highest ever number of hate crime cases as referrals from police hit record levels.The Crown Prosecution Service’s latest performance data for July to September 2025 released today (January 15) shows it received 4,358 cases from police which have been flagged as…
A woman and a man have today been jailed after a motorcyclist was killed and two others critically injured in separate incidents where vehicles were deliberately used as weapons during a long-running feud.Zoe Treadwell, 36, was convicted of murder after deliberately driving her Range Rover at…
A former actor who was found guilty of sexual offences against two teenage girls has been jailed for eight and a half years.John Shannon – also known as John Alford – engaged in unlawful sexual activity with the girls, aged 14 and 15, one evening in April 2022 when they were staying at a friend’s…
Press ReleaseSexual offencesCPSThames and Chiltern
A man has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for raping a woman in a Tamworth park. Mehmet Ogur, 27, was sentenced today after being found guilty of attempted rape and rape following a trial at Stafford Crown Court. Sachan Gautam, a senior crown prosecutor in the Crown…
A man has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a soldier in Gillingham.The victim, who was in military uniform at the time of the attack, was stabbed repeatedly by a man in the street near the Brompton Barracks on 23 July 2024. He underwent emergency surgery at a London hospital following the…
A woman has been charged with making up false claims of sexual abuse.Esther Baker, 43, is charged with four counts of perverting the course of justice following an investigation into organised child sexual abuse.She will appear at Liverpool & Knowsley Magistrates’ Court on 14 January.Malcolm…
A man who assisted suicide by selling a substance to four people via an online forum has been jailed. Miles Cross, 33, from Wrexham, set up a business and began selling the substance via an internet discussion forum after joining the online site in July 2024.Interacting under a pseudonym, he…
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