Three teenage boys have today been convicted of a knife-point rape and other serious sexual offences against two teenage girls in Hampshire.

A convention between prosecuting authorities to provide arrangements for ensuring effective co-ordination of decision making and handling in related cases which are the responsibility of different authorities.

An 18-year-old man who killed his mother with a hammer has been sentenced at Mold Crown Court.

Seven men have been convicted for their role in the systematic abuse of vulnerable children in Rochdale.

A primary school teacher from Northampton has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 20 years for the murder of her partner.

A man from Burton on Trent has been jailed for seven years and three months for attempted rape and sexual assault on a young woman looking for a safe taxi ride in Leicester.

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.