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UPDATED FOLLOWING APPEAL: MP sentenced for assaulting man at taxi rank

Mike Amesbury MP, 55, has been sentenced for assaulting a man at a taxi rank in Frodsham, Cheshire.
Press Release CPS

Former Olympic swimmer jailed for 21 years for raping teenage girls

A former Olympic swimmer and trainee police officer, who represented Great Britain at the 2012 London Games, has been jailed at Plymouth Crown Court for raping two teenage girls.
Press Release Sexual offences CPS South West

Six people convicted of modern slavery

Six people who exploited Vietnamese workers who had been smuggled into the UK for forced labour on cannabis farms have been convicted (Monday 24 February).Mai Van Nguyen, 35, Duong Dinh, 38, Nghĩa Dinh Tran, 30, Shamraiz Akhtar, 54, Tasawar Hussain, 54, and Amjad Nawaz, 43, were found guilty…
Press Release International and organised crime CPS

Teen who shot dead mother, brother, and sister pleads guilty to murders

Nicholas Prosper, 19, appeared at Luton Crown Court on 24 February 2025 where he pleaded guilty to three counts of murder, one count of purchasing a firearm without a firearm certificate, one count of possessing a firearm with intent to danger life, and one count of having an article with a blade.
Press Release Violent crime CPS Thames and Chiltern

Gangster brothers involved in cocaine theft from stash house ordered to pay back £81,000

Two brothers from an organised crime family who were jailed for their part in the theft of £1.2 million worth of cocaine from a Liverpool-based organised crime group have been ordered to payback £80,826 or spend nine months more in prison.
Press Release Proceeds of crime Drug offences CPS

Man convicted of murdering retired postmistress in 2013

A man who brutally attacked a retired postmistress more than a decade ago before starting a series of fires inside her home has today been found guilty of her murder.
Press Release Violent crime CPS East of England

Father jailed for murdering his daughter in a ‘play fight’

A father who murdered his daughter in what he had claimed to be a ‘play fight’ at their home has been jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years at Teesside Crown Court today.
Press Release Violent crime CPS North East

Darlington man who murdered his partner’s infant son is jailed

A Darlington man who murdered his partner’s infant son has been jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years today at Teesside Crown Court.
Press Release Violent crime CPS North East

Former scout leader who assaulted 19 boys jailed

A former scout leader who assaulted children as young as seven over almost three decades has been jailed. Ian Charles Silvester, 60, was found guilty of 79 offences following a trial at Lewes Crown Court on 20 November 2024. Today, he has been sentenced to 16 years imprisonment, with an…
Press Release Sexual offences CPS

Men involved in conspiracy to smuggle migrants into UK convicted

Two men have been convicted for conspiring to facilitate the illegal immigration of migrants – including eight children - into the UK who were hidden in the back of a lorry.Daniel Loughran, 34, and Eoin Nolan, 51, were found guilty today following a trial at Maidstone Crown Court of conspiring to…
Press Release International and organised crime CPS

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