Victims of crime can watch the rest of a trial after they have given evidence without fearing they will negatively affect the outcome, the Crown Prosecution Service has reaffirmed.

This guidance deals with older people as victims and witnesses, not as offenders. It should be read in conjunction with the CPS Policy Guidance on the prosecution of crimes against older people.

The CPS is responsible for paying allowances and expenses to witnesses who are called to give evidence in prosecutions conducted by the Service.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has today updated its guidance to prosecutors to encourage them to consider the full range of available offences when charging assaults against emergency workers.

A woman has been found guilty of murdering her husband, after his body was found in a holdall in the garden of the property where they lived in Canterbury, Kent.

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.

The CPS has published a Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy for 2017-2020 providing a framework outlining the approach taken to these crimes.

Three burglars who stole almost £1 million worth of the weight-loss drug Mounjaro from a pharmaceutical distribution site in St Albans have been jailed.

A man who unleashed tirades of religiously aggravated abuse at members of the Jewish community has been jailed.