Janine McKinney, Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS East Midlands, said: “The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised the prosecution of a 76-year-old man with child cruelty offences following a police investigation into a summer camp held at Stathern Lodge, Leicestershire.

"This decision has been made after reviewing a file of evidence from Leicestershire Police.

“Jonathon Ruben will be charged with three child cruelty offences relating to three boys. He will appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court on Saturday, 1 August.

A man has been given an 18-year sentence after driving his car at a man who had been trying to break up a fight in a street in County Durham.

Hugh Holmes, 36, of Tudhoe Moor, Spennymoor, Durham drove a Renault Megane at the victim and James Cowie, 28, of Kilburn Street, Shildon, Durham, in Faraday Street in Ferryhill on 19 December last year.

Holmes and Cowie had begun fighting a short time earlier after Holmes girlfriend, who’d been a passenger in the car, claimed the people in Cowie’s van had been offensive to her.

A man who claimed that his partner died after rolling out of bed and hitting her nose has been convicted of her murder. 

Samantha Mickleburgh honoured plans to celebrate James Cartwright’s 60th birthday at Pennyhill Park Hotel and Spa in Surrey in April 2024, wanting to make sure he wasn’t lonely, despite having ended their relationship. She knew this would be the last time she would see him. 

A former Premier League football player has today been sentenced at Preston Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to harassment without violence.

Colin Hendry, 59, pleaded guilty to harassing a former partner for a period of over six months after their relationship ended.

Natasha Clark, Senior Crown Prosecutor for Crown Prosecution Service North West, said:  “Colin Hendry harassed a former partner for over six weeks after their relationship ended after she stopped returning his calls.