Below are examples of Domestic Abuse cases successfully prosecuted by CPS North East in September

A man has been sentenced to 17 years for manslaughter after his ex-partner fell from a top floor flat.

Leonidas Georgalla, 51, has been sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment after his former partner fell from a top floor flat. He had previously admitted to breaching the restraining order on the day that Kathleen John fell three floors from a window.

Upon returning home in the early hours of Friday 29 June 2022, friends and family of the pair saw Georgalla standing in front of the flat claiming that Kathleen had fallen from a window.

A husband and four of his family members have been sentenced to a period of imprisonment after subjecting his wife to forced servitude, honour-based violence and coercive behaviour between October 2017 and April 2019 at their shared family home.

After entering an arranged marriage in Pakistan, Mohammed-Shuaib Arshid, 28, moved to the UK with his new wife in a house shared with his father, Arshid Sadiq, 54, his mother, Nabila Shaheen, 56, his brother, Aqeel Arshid, 32, and his sister Zaib Arshid, 27.