Press Releases

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20/08/2010

CPS advises Ray Gosling be prosecuted for wasting police time

The Special Crime Division of the Crown Prosecution Service has advised Nottinghamshire Police that television presenter Ray Gosling should be prosecuted for wasting police time. Mr Gosling was served with a summons for that offence today.

12/08/2010

Four police officers to face charge of causing actual bodily harm to Babar Ahmad

The Crown Prosecution Service has decided that four officers of the Metropolitan Police Service's Territorial Support Group should be charged with causing actual bodily harm to Babar Ahmad during his arrest on 2 December 2003.

09/08/2010

Trio sentenced for £4.6M mortgage fraud

Three people were sentenced today to almost ten years imprisonment in total for defrauding mortgage providers of £4.6 million in a fraud that Crown Prosecution Service lawyer Stephen Rowland described as remarkable for its "sheer scale and effectiveness".

30/07/2010

Kautilya Pruthi to face 30 fraud charges

The Crown Prosecution Service Central Fraud Group has authorised charges against Kautilya Nandan Pruthi in relation to an alleged Ponzi scheme.

29/07/2010

CPS launches consultation on human trafficking public policy

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) today began a public consultation on its Public Policy Statement on Human Trafficking.

28/07/2010

Jonathan Vass charged with murder of Jane Clough

The Crown Prosecution Service in Lancashire has today authorised that Jonathan Vass should be charged with the murder of Jane Clough, his former partner.

22/07/2010

No charges over death of Ian Tomlinson

Keir Starmer QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, announced today that no charges will be brought in relation to the death of Ian Tomlinson at the 'G20 protests' in London on 1 April 2009.

16/07/2010

Lord Taylor of Warwick faces six charges of false accounting

Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, today announced that John David Beckett Taylor, known as Lord Taylor of Warwick, has been summonsed to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday 13 August to face six charges in relation to claims for parliamentary expenses.

14/07/2010

CPS lawyer admits serious offences in breach of trust

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, said that Crown Prosecution Service lawyer Sarfraz Ibrahim had disgraced the service through a serious breach of trust after he admitted charges of corruption, misconduct and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

08/07/2010

Three men linked to liquid bomb plot guilty of conspiracy to murder

Today's convictions of Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan and Waheed Zaman are the culmination of years of determined work by the CPS and police, and brings to 12 the number of those successfully prosecuted following the arrests in relation to the liquid bomb plot, said Sue Hemming, head of the Crown Prosecution Service Counter Terrorism Division.

25/06/2010

Michael Heaton and Trevor Hannington convicted

Michael Heaton and Trevor Hannington faced serious charges of soliciting to murder for their roles in the far-right extremist group Aryan Strike Force (ASF), said Crown Prosecution Service Counter Terrorism Division lawyer Stuart Laidlaw.

25/06/2010

No charges following death of Raymond Cutkelvin

Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, has today said that while there is sufficient evidence to prosecute Alan Cutkelvin Rees and Dr Michael Irwin in relation to the death of Raymond Cutkelvin at a Dignitas clinic in Switzerland in February 2007, such a prosecution would not be in the public interest and no further action should be taken against them.

21/06/2010

CPS publishes guidance on prosecuting Medicines Act offences where a dispensing error has occurred

The Crown Prosecution Service has today published Legal Guidance to Crown Prosecutors on the prosecution of offences in the Medicines Act 1968, including where there has been a dispensing error by a pharmacist. This Legal Guidance has been agreed in consultation with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the Department of Health (DH).

24/05/2010

Assisted suicide charge not in the public interest

No charge will be brought against Michael Bateman in relation to the death of his wife Margaret on 20 October 2009. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) today decided there was sufficient evidence to charge Mr Bateman with aiding or abetting a suicide, but it would not be in the public interest to do so.

19/05/2010

Eric Illsley MP charged with three offences of false accounting

Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, today announced that Eric Illsley MP has been summonsed to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on 17 June 2010 to face three charges in relation to claims for parliamentary expenses.

14/05/2010

Far right extremist father and son convicted of terrorism offences

County Durham father Ian Davison is the first man in England and Wales to be convicted of a terrorism-related offence involving the fatal poison Ricin, said Crown Prosecution Service Counter Terrorism Division lawyer Stuart Laidlaw.

31/03/2010

Four armed robbers found guilty in first trial without jury

Portia Ragnauth, Chief Crown Prosecutor for Surrey Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) described the first trial without a jury in England and Wales as a "benchmark prosecution" after four men were found guilty today over the 2004 armed robbery of the Menzies World Cargo depot at Heathrow Airport.

29/03/2010