CPS Thames and Chiltern is one of 14 CPS areas across the country and we are responsible for prosecuting cases in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 (“The Regulations”) came into force at 13.00 on 26 March 2020 and are effective until 00.01 on 4 July 2020 for the majority of restrictions.
A former councillor who had more than 500 indecent images of children on his phone and iPad has been given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.
The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised a charge of riot against Brian Gilby, 29, in relation to the disorder that took place in Sunderland on 2 August this year.
A man who drove from Bedford to Worthing before abducting a 13-year-old boy and subjecting him to a three-and-a-half-hour ordeal, where he was raped and sexually assaulted, has been jailed for 10 years.
A man who stabbed a police officer and attempted to set fire to a police station has been jailed for life with a minimum of 22 years after it was found the incident was connected to terrorism.
