This Legal Guidance is intended to assist when prosecutors are asked to advise on allegations that an offence has been committed involving a doll with childlike characteristics which is capable of being used for sexual purposes. It relates to possible offences of importing a childlike sex doll, distributing or selling it (or having it with intent to do so), or sending it by post. There is no offence of simple possession of a childlike sex doll.

A man has been jailed for 17 years for raping three women between 2021 and 2023 in Preston and Darwen.

A self-proclaimed “nerdy kid” who tried building his own bombs in his mother’s back garden has been found guilty today after prosecutors proved he wasn’t just a scientist experimenting at home – and had in fact committed a serious criminal offence.

Meeting of 19 December 2012

A 19-year-old man who violently attacked his pregnant girlfriend and caused the death of their unborn son has been jailed. Stefan Marin, 19 and of Kingston upon Hull, was convicted by a jury in October of child destruction, grievous bodily harm, strangulation, forced imprisonment and perverting the course of justice.