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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under the Directors Guidance on Charging, police can raise an appeal if they disagree with a CPS decision. This is then escalated to a CPS legal manager. A legal manager reviewed the case and the ...

Former Premier League footballer Joey Barton has been found guilty of sending grossly offensive messages to football pundits, Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward and broadcaster Jeremy Vine. The former Manchester ...

A criminal network which procured and sold dozens of kilos of cocaine across South-West England between 2016-2020 have been jailed for over 112 years in total. The last of the network, Anton Merturi, ...

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.