International and organised crime | The Crown Prosecution Service

CPS successfully prosecutes second major modern slavery case this month

A father and son have today (29 July) been convicted for their roles in long-running conspiracy to exploit Eastern European workers they trafficked into the UK.

Gang jailed for laundering £1m in cocaine and ketamine cash

Eleven men have been sentenced to a total of more than 65 years between them for their roles laundering £1m in drug money over a six-month period including a sale of 50kg of ketamine.

CPS secures convictions in largest ever modern slavery prosecution

A Polish human-trafficking ring have been jailed after the CPS concluded the UK’s largest ever modern slavery prosecution and what is believed to be the largest prosecution of its type in Europe.

TalkTalk hacker sentenced over bullying and blackmail campaign

A blackmailing hacker behind the TalkTalk cyber-attack – which cost the company £77million after the personal details of 157,000 customers were stolen – has today (10 June) been sentenced.

Daniel Kelley, 22, admitted targeting at least six organisations by threatening to sell their hacked data on the ‘dark web’ unless they paid him hundreds of thousands of pounds in Bitcoin. Where they refused, he made good on his threats.

Deputy head jailed for live-streaming child sex abuse via videoconference

A deputy headteacher who live-streamed children being sexually abused while high on cocaine and crystal meth has today (23 May) been jailed for 28 months.

Emerging Areas of Child Abuse and Exploitation

Speech by Max Hill QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, to the Heads of Prosecuting Agencies Conference in Uganda, 15-17 April 2019

Gang convicted of running gun-making factory to sell weapons to criminal underworld

A gang who ran a gun-making factory selling arms to the criminal underworld have been convicted after a CPS prosecution.

Hacker behind £500k online blackmail campaign jailed

A prolific cyber criminal who made more than £500,000 by infecting victims’ computers with ‘ransomware’ in an internet blackmail campaign has today (9 April) been jailed for six years and five months.

CPS takes action to tackle childlike sex dolls

Robust measures to help prosecutors bring charges against importers and sellers of child sex dolls have been unveiled today.

Lorry driver found with 21 illegal migrants hidden in wooden crates jailed for six years

An HGV driver who smuggled 21 Vietnamese nationals – a large number of them children – into the country inside a refrigerated lorry has today (26 March) been sentenced to six years in prison for assisting unlawful entry into the UK.

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