Criminal cases prosecuted by the CPS are in the news every day, along with a range of issues relating to our work – from violence against women and girls and hate crime, to support for victims and witnesses, statistics and speeches.
To ensure greater openness in the reporting of criminal proceedings, the CPS, the police and media representatives developed a joint protocol for working together.
A man who caused damage to two mosques, a café and the Palestine Mission to the UK with red paint on eleven separate occasions has been sentenced to an increased penalty today after the CPS successfully applied for a hate crime uplift.
Three men who abused residents at Grove House care home in Sutton have been jailed today.
Alex Nazareth, 30, Georgios Skordoulis, 28, and Ahmed Hassanen, 54, were found guilty of ill-treatment after a four-week trial at Croydon Crown Court in October last year.
An MP has been found guilty of racially abusing a member of the public today (3 November 2023) at Westminster Magistrates’ Court after a one-day trial.
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As the respective National Hate Crime Leads for the Crown Prosecution Service and the National Police Chiefs’ Council, we continue to stand united in the commitment of both our organisations to the investigation and prosecution of hate crime, and in the support of victims of such crimes.
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As part of Pride Month, our CPS National Lead for Hate Crime, Lionel Idan, hosted a Hate Crime Round Table discussion alongside Saba Ali, Gender Equity and Hate Crime Team ESS Co-Founder, and Lionel's NPCC counterpart lead for Hate Crime, DCC Mark Hamilton, OBE and his police National Advisor, Pa
In April 2020, Zakir Hussain, 28, posted numerous hateful tweets on a social networking site including grossly offensive posts referring to the tragic 1989 Hillsborough disaster. Shockingly, Hussain tagged a family member of one of those victims, the sister of Andrew Mark Brookes, in these posts. He also made racist comments about the supporters of another Premier League football club.
Claire Walsh, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor, CPS London South, said: “The CPS has authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge Robert Alexander Stewart MP, 73, with a Racially Aggravated offence contrary to s5 of the Public Order Act and in the alternative, a non-aggravated section 5 offence unde
Welcome to this edition of our monthly newsletter. As part of a focused piece on hate crime this month, you can read about the recent two-day hate crime conference we held which had representatives from key organisations such as the Sophie Lancaster foundation, CST, Tell Mama, ‘Hope Not Hate’, RAKKHA and Dimensions UK.
The CPS in London held an event at Petty France on Thursday, 20 April to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence on the streets of south London on 22 April 1993.
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