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Former MP charged with drugs offences

Former MP Crispin Blunt has been charged with drugs offences, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced.
Press Release Drug offences CPS

CPS statement in relation to Nottingham Inquiry

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.
Press Release CPS

Two men charged with National Security Act offence

Frank Ferguson, Head of the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said: “We have decided to prosecute two men for an offence under the National Security Act.
Press Release CPS

Predatory DJ who used his job to lure children to his home and abuse them jailed

A DJ who systematically groomed and abused girls as young as nine in the late 1990s has been jailed for a further 12 years.
Press Release Sexual offences CPS Yorkshire and Humberside

Man who punched a stranger in antisemitic attack is sentenced

A man who punched a woman twice in the face in an antisemitic attack in Shoreham, Sussex, has been sentenced. Romilly Hudson, 44, was sentenced to nine months in custody, suspended for 18 months, following a successful CPS prosecution.He attacked the woman in January 2025 who went up to a…
Press Release Hate crime CPS South East

Man charged with gross negligence manslaughter after death of eight-year-old in Cumbria

The Crown Prosecution Service has today announced that a 64-year-old man has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter following the death of eight-year-old schoolboy Jay Cartmell. Allan Thursby, 64, of Cleator Moor in Cumbria has been charged following an incident at Wheatsheaf farm in…
Press Release CPS North West
Custody images of Yafeng Dong and Wei Gong Li

Husband and wife jailed for operating brothel network

A husband and wife who ran a network of brothels and advertised sex workers online, have today been jailed for a combined total of nearly five years.
Press Release Fraud and economic crime CPS Wessex

Ukrainian pair jailed for running “illegal migrant taxi service” across Channel

Two Ukrainian men have been jailed for smuggling four Albanian men and a teenage girl from Vietnam aboard a private yacht in July this year.
Press Release International and organised crime CPS

Gloucestershire woman who imprisoned victim for over 20 years is jailed

A woman from Tewkesbury who kept another woman captive for over 20 years and forced her to carry out labour in her home has been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment.
Press Release Violent crime CPS South West

'Therapist' jailed for sexual assaults on a patient

A man who claimed that sexual assaults he carried out on a patient were part of therapy has been sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment.
Press Release Sexual offences CPS South East

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Media protocol

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