A man has pleaded guilty to encouraging or assisting suicide after he sold a chemical to four people via an online forum. Miles Cross, 33, set up a business selling the chemical via an internet ...

A Twitter hacker who breached the accounts of celebrities including Barack Obama and Jeff Bezos has been forced to hand over £4million. Joseph James O’Connor, 26, was jailed in the US for the hacks ...

She then went on to convert around £20.2 million of the illegally obtained money into Bitcoin. Qian then fled China and came to the UK where she met Jian Wen (convicted and imprisoned for money ...

Join the Crown Prosecution Service and have a future that matters. We are recruiting qualified lawyers across England and Wales. If you have criminal advocacy experience and want to advance your ...

The Anthony Walker Foundation was established in 2006 after the racially motivated murder of Anthony Walker in Huyton, Liverpool. Anthony’s family and friends wanted his name to live on with a ...

Our duty is to make sure that the right person is prosecuted for the right offence, and to bring offenders to justice wherever possible. CPS 2030 sets out what we want to achieve over the next five ...

In some circumstances, the parties to the case can challenge the empanelment of a juror through ‘Stand By’ or ‘Challenge to Cause’, full details of which are set out in this document. However, this ...

All our prosecutors follow the Code for Crown Prosecutors. This code sets out the key principles that guide every decision about whether to prosecute a case. Our prosecution guidance helps prosecutors ...

Thomas Waller, 18, started work at the nursery in Surrey in July 2024, having just completed qualifications. Within weeks, he had raped one boy and persuaded another three-year-old boy to engage in ...

Murder and manslaughter are crimes where one person unlawfully kills another. Both offences can be described as homicide. The crime of murder is committed where a sane person unlawfully kills another ...

Why the Crown Prosecution Service? We protect the public by prosecuting the right person for the right offence. We’re independent and we make our decisions fairly and objectively by following our Code ...