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 ...

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 ...

A serial rapist has been sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court today after he drugged and raped women in Greenwich. Chao Xu, 33, pleaded guilty to multiple serious sexual offences including rape, assault ...

Marie Watton, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “Joshua Powell mercilessly strangled his 96-year-old grandmother to gain inheritance money and pay off his debts. “We built a strong and ...

The Representation of the People Act 1983 (“RPA”) is the primary piece of legislation creating the criminal offences relating to elections which CPS has to consider. Although couched in terms of ...

Mark Andrews, Senior Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service in the North West, said: “Marshall and Wadsworth carried out a violent assault on Martin Shaw, causing serious injuries, that ...

A man who murdered a ‘Good Samaritan’ who stepped in to help other victims following a violent brawl at the defendant’s ...

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) or the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (DSFO) must give personal consent to a prosecution under the Act, as set out in section 10 of the Act. A personal ...

UPDATED WITH SENTENCE: On Friday, 7 November 2025 Howard Phillips was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court to seven years' imprisonment for engaging in conduct to assist a foreign intelligence service.