Two Just Stop Oil protesters have been convicted of causing and attempting to cause criminal damage after throwing orange powder to disrupt the World Snooker Championships in April last year – following a successful prosecution by the Crown Prosecution Service.

A former imam who carried out a sustained campaign of sexual abuse against women and girls over more than a decade has been jailed.

A man who attacked a police officer in broad daylight causing him grievous bodily harm has been jailed at Cardiff Crown Court.

A man who murdered a lone woman walking her dog on an isolated footpath in Kent has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years.

Rex Clark, 18, and Sofija Vinogradova, 19, have been charged with terrorism offences over an alleged plan to carry out a terrorist attack.

Rosemary Ainslie, Head of the CPS Special Crime Division, said: “The unprovoked and racially motivated murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993 shocked the nation, and had a vast impact on the criminal justice system in the years that followed.