Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) has today (1 December 2020) issued a follow up report on the CPS handling of disclosure of unused material in the Crown Court. This report follows up on the report published in January 2020.
A teenager who murdered his mother, brother and sister has been jailed for life. Nicholas Prosper, who had also planned to carry out a school shooting, will serve a minimum of 49 years in prison.
From today, prosecutors will have new powers to charge violent abusers with specific offences of non-fatal strangulation and non-fatal suffocation, as key measures in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 come into force.
What is the disproportionality advisory group?
The purpose of the advisory group is to provide independent scrutiny of CPS research into disproportionality.
A man who used computer technology and real photographs of children to create sexual abuse images and encouraged the rape of children via the internet has been convicted.
