Luke Unsworth, Senior Crown Prosecutor at CPS Mersey-Cheshire, said: “Kevin Biji was just 16 years old when he armed himself ...

This is the tenth Crown Prosecution Service Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) annual report. It covers the following strands of Violence against Women and Girls: child abuse; domestic abuse; ...

Tim Cole, Acting Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor with CPS Wessex, said: “The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Hampshire Constabulary to charge Richard Elkin and Hayley Bell, of Gosport, ...

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 ...

Christopher Bell, 45, of De La Pole Avenue, Hull, pleaded guilty to one count of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control resulting in death. The charge relates to an attack that occurred ...

The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Counter Terrorism Policing South East to charge eight people over their alleged involvement in an aggravated burglary with associated criminal damage and ...

A former scout leader who assaulted children as young as seven over almost three decades has been convicted. Ian Charles Silvester, 60, has been found guilty of 79 offences following a trial at Lewes ...

The Domestic Abuse Joint Justice Plan (DA JJP) commits the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to work together more cohesively at an earlier stage to build ...

A Code of Practice to be applied regarding Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPA). DPAs involve companies reaching an agreement with a prosecutor, where the company is charged with a criminal offence ...

Go Prosecute is an initial one-year development programme piloted by the Crown Prosecution Service. It’s for newly qualified barristers who want to develop criminal advocacy experience. You can spend ...

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the main prosecuting authority in England and Wales. In our daily operations we work in partnership with all agencies in the criminal justice system. We work ...

From January 2020, the CPS has published quarterly bulletins of data tables and summaries of main trends as part of the CPS’s ongoing commitment to transparency on prosecution performance. The ...