This page provides guidance for CPS prosecutors in cases where criminal investigations have been commenced in more than one jurisdiction and involve suspected criminal conduct that crosses international boundaries. In this guidance, such cases are referred to as cases of concurrent jurisdiction.

Convicted child murderer Lucy Letby has been found guilty of trying to kill another baby in the neonatal unit where she worked.

A woman and her lover have been jailed for conspiring to murder her husband.

The deaths of Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates and attempts to kill Wayne Birkett, Marcin Gawronski and Sharon Miller in Nottingham in June 2023 were the result of a senseless attack which has had a devastating impact on families, friends and communities.

This Memorandum of Understanding between the CPS and ACPO has been drafted in accordance with domestic and European law and acknowledges those professionally involved in the management, operation or use of networks and services to be re-assured of protection where they are acting to combat the creation and distribution of images of child abuse.

A woman has been jailed for seven years and seven months after deceiving multiple men out of tens of thousands of pounds over four years.

A woman has been jailed for causing the death of her terminally ill partner of 37 years after attacking him on New Year’s Eve.

A Darlington man who caused fatal injuries to his partner’s infant son has been convicted of his murder at Teesside Crown Court today.

A Durham woman whose infant son drowned unsupervised in the bath while she played a video game on her mobile phone has been jailed today after pleading guilty to gross negligence manslaughter at Teesside Crown Court.