Criminal cases that the Crown Prosecution Service take to court are in the news every day. This section also covers many issues related to our work, including violence against women and girls, hate crime, support for victims and witnesses, statistics, and speeches by the Director of Public Prosecutions and other senior staff.
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You can find our latest news stories here and search for older stories. You can also find more information about high-profile cases and the work of the CPS.
A man, who was found guilty of murdering his wife in a double jeopardy case, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.Robert Rhodes was originally acquitted of killing his wife Dawn in June 2016, after he claimed at his original trial in 2017 that he and a child had been attacked and he had then…
A 55-year-old Romanian truck driver has been jailed for 27 months today after 10 foreign nationals were found in the back of his truck in Dover.Dragos-Gabriel Geangalau was stopped on 21 November last year while trying to make a ferry crossing to France. The ten people in the back of his HGV…
Press ReleaseInternational and organised crimeCPSSouth East
A man has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a soldier in Gillingham.The victim, who was in military uniform at the time of the attack, was stabbed repeatedly by a man in the street near the Brompton Barracks on 23 July 2024. He underwent emergency surgery at a London hospital following the…
An 18-year-old Afghan national has become the first person to be charged with endangerment of life during a small boat crossing since it became a specific offence on 5 January 2026.Arman Naseri (dob 17/12/2007) was charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in an extremely timely manner with…
Press ReleaseInternational and organised crimeCPSSouth East
A former teacher at a school in Surrey, previously convicted of sexually abusing two pupils, has been found guilty of a series of further sexual assaults on a third pupil. Jonathan Marshall, 75, who worked at St. Dunstan’s Middle Catholic School in Woking, targeted the boy in the late 1980s,…
A husband, who manipulated a young child into helping him to kill his wife, has been found guilty of murder, having previously been acquitted of the crime in 2017. New and compelling evidence from a child witness, who was under 10-years-old at the time of the murder, led to a successful…
An Iraqi man who had been extradited to Italy and convicted of terrorist offences there, has been jailed for two years and three months today for returning to the UK illegally in a small boat.Rebwar Hamad, 48, arrived with others on 19 September this year and eventually pleaded guilty to coming to…
Press ReleaseInternational and organised crimeCPSSouth East
A director of a care home agency based in East Sussex who repeatedly employed immigrants with no right to work in the UK has been jailed today. Between 2017 and 2018, Benoy Thomas, 50, recruited Indian nationals to work as care assistants through Bexhill-on-Sea based A Class Care Recruitment…
Press ReleaseFraud and economic crimeInternational and organised crimeCPSSouth East
A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a woman in her sleep and committing a sexual offence against her body afterwards.Ernestas Juska, 21, was sentenced today (Friday 28 November 2025) at Maidstone Crown Court to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 26 years, after…
Press ReleaseSexual offencesViolent crimeSouth East
New measure to upskill prosecutors in the South East to better recognise patterns of domestic abuse and its impact on victims have been announced today as part of the Crown Prosecution Service’s rollout of its five-year Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy.The new strategy, which will…
Press ReleaseDomestic abuseSouth East
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