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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To make criminal court reporting more open, the CPS, police, and media representatives created a joint protocol (agreement) for working together. We are currently working on an updated version of the protocol.
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A man who pretended to be an Uber driver so he could carry out sex attacks on young women has been jailed for 18 years, extended for a further five years.Graham Head sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman in a Brighton park, who managed to message a friend saying she was being raped. When 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…
A DNA sample given by a man who applied to join the police has led to him being jailed for sexually assaulting two girls in 2017.Reinaldo Goncalo Bertoni Filho (42) applied to work as a Police Community Support Officer in British Transport Police in 2024 and provided a DNA sample as part of the…
A man has pleaded guilty to murdering a woman in her sleep and committing a sexual offence against her afterwards. Ernesta Juska, 21, entered the pleas at a hearing today (Friday 18 July) at Maidstone Crown Court, following the death of Nina Denisova in August 2024 at an address in Dartford…
Press ReleaseViolent crimeSexual offencesSouth East
A man who raped and controlled five women over a four-year period has been sentenced to 17 years imprisonment, extended by a further five years. George De Bathe, 25, cut the victims off from their family and friends, controlling them in different ways, including taking over their phones and…
A doctor has been found guilty of a series of sexual offences committed over a number of years against male patients at the surgery he worked at in Canterbury.Gregory Manson was a GP practising at Cossington House Surgery from 1999 to 2017 who carried out unnecessary examinations of men’s genitals,…
A father has been found guilty of murdering his five-week-old baby daughter.Everleigh Stroud suffered catastrophic injuries while Thomas Holford was looking after her in April 2021. The injuries left Everleigh with substantial brain damage and resulted in her death in May 2022. She also suffered…
Three men have been convicted of a series of sexual offences, including rape, on a 12-year-old girl over a three-day period. Kevin Horvath and Ivan Turtak saw her in a supermarket car park in Dover on 11 August 2024 and encouraged her to get in their car. She was then given drugs, including…
A man who attacked a complete stranger at her home in Hastings, after forcing his way in, has been found guilty of rape and attempted rape.Jason Wren was seen by witnesses acting suspiciously outside the property in November 2024, while the woman was home alone. They described him as “making them…
A murderer has had his prison sentence extended, after the body of his wife, who went missing in 1999, was found at his former home.Andrew Griggs was convicted in October 2019 of murdering his wife Debbie, who was three months pregnant with their fourth child when she disappeared from their home in…
Press ReleaseViolent crimeSouth East
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Media protocol
To ensure greater openness in the reporting of criminal proceedings, the CPS, the police and media representatives developed a joint protocol for working together. We are currently in the process of updating the protocol.
