This guidance is to assist prosecutors who will sometimes have to decide whether to charge an offence, or continue with a prosecution, where a nominal penalty is likely.
A teenager who encouraged a young victim to self-harm and produce sexually-explicit images of herself as part of a sustained campaign of online abuse has been jailed today at Sheffield Crown Court.
The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge a 15-year-old and 16-year-old boy with the murder of Kelyan Bokassa in London.
