General Instructions to Crown Prosecution Service Associate Prosecutors, pursuant to Section 7A(3) and (4) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985

The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised two further charges, under the Biological Weapons Act 1974 and Terrorism Act 2000, against Axel Rudakubana.

A man who brutally murdered a mother and her two daughters has now been found guilty of rape.

A serial killer who murdered five women in 2006 has been sentenced for the murder another teenager seven years earlier following groundbreaking forensic techniques.

A former PhD student has been jailed for conspiring to commit female genital mutilation (FGM) against a young girl in the first conviction of its kind in England and Wales.

The decision whether rape counts, linked to murder, should be left to lie on file, is the prosecutor's responsibility. This guidance provides assistance to prosecutors, by identifying some of the issues to be taken into account when making this decision.

Dylan Phelan, 21, from Morley, West Yorkshire, has been charged with encouraging suicide following the death of a man in the USA.