In October 2023, the CPS West Midlands Magistrates' and Crown Court units successfully prosecuted various hate crime cases.

A Wolverhampton general practitioner who joined an online chat to distribute indecent images of children has been sentenced.

Six members of an organised crime group have been jailed for smuggling into the UK 15 tonnes of cocaine worth £1.59bn in boxes of frozen chicken.

Under the hate crime legislation, courts must treat offences more seriously where there is evidence that the offender demonstrated hostility on the basis of the victim’s actual or presumed race, religion, disability, transgender identity or sexual orientation, or the offence was motivated on the basis of hostility towards one of these characteristics.  Below are some examples of hate crime cases prosecuted by CPS Yorkshire and Humberside in September 2023 which resulted in a conviction and an uplifted sentence.

A prospective adoptive mother from Leicester has been jailed for life for the murder of a one-year-old baby.

A teenage right-wing supremacist has been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment after he was convicted of planning to disguise himself as an armed police officer and kill Muslims worshipping at nearby mosques.

A hotel owner has been jailed for fraudulently claiming thousands of pounds from Government schemes to help businesses survive the Covid crisis.

An attacker who targeted lone women in a string of terrifying, random assaults in Basingstoke has been convicted.

A Blyth man has today been convicted for murder after the death of an off-duty ambulance worker, who he fatally struck with his van in the car park of a Northumberland pub.