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Twice deported migrant jailed for re-entering the UK

An Albanian national who was deported from the UK twice in three years has been sentenced today for breaking immigration rules by returning illegally again last year.
Press Release International and organised crime CPS Yorkshire and Humberside

Man jailed for hiring taxi drivers to help smuggle migrants to France

An unemployed man who hired a team of taxi drivers in a conspiracy to smuggle migrants illegally to France in the back of lorries has been jailed today.
Press Release International and organised crime CPS

Man admits deliberately driving into crowd in Liverpool

Paul Doyle has today pleaded guilty to 31 offences after deliberately driving into more than 100 people in Liverpool in May 2025.
Press Release Driving offences CPS Mersey-Cheshire

Complex layers of abuse provide a new prosecution challenge in tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)

Crown Prosecution Service data shows significant overlap of domestic abuse across key VAWG crimes, including rape, strangulation, ‘honour’-based abuse, harassment, stalking and revenge porn
News Item Domestic abuse Sexual offences CPS

Group of four convicted for supplying millions of doses of unauthorised medicines and illegal drugs

Three people have been found guilty today of selling unauthorised medicines and drugs through a website. A fourth pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.Everton Reynolds, 58, Paul Billingham, 56, and Junior Ranger, 44, have all been convicted today (25 November 2025) at Wolverhampton Crown…
Press Release Fraud and economic crime CPS

Man jailed for distributing child abuse images from international blackmail ring

A man has been jailed for his role in an international organised crime group (OCG) that blackmailed more than 100 children worldwide into producing sexual abuse material.
Press Release Sexual offences CPS

Former UKIP MEP jailed for taking bribes

The former leader of Reform (Wales) and UKIP MEP Nathan Gill has been jailed after pleading guilty to eight bribery offences.
Press Release Terrorism CPS

Further charges against Anthony Williams

The Crown Prosecution Service has today announced further charges against Anthony Williams, 32, from Peterborough.Siobhan Blake, Chief Crown Prosecutor for West Midlands, said: “We have decided to prosecute Anthony Williams with two counts of attempted murder and one count of attempted wounding…
Press Release Violent crime CPS West Midlands

David Carrick: Serial rapist and former police officer guilty of further sexual offences

Serial rapist and former police officer David Carrick has been found guilty of serious sex offences against a further two women.
Press Release Sexual offences CPS Thames and Chiltern

Man admits assisting suicide of others through sale of substance

Miles Cross, 33, from Wrexham, has admitted encouraging or assisting suicide after he sold a chemical to four people via an online forum.
Press Release CPS

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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.

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