A man who was under the influence of alcohol and driving at grossly excessive speeds when he killed his friend has been ...

Jakob Walpole, 33, of Bulkington was found guilty of the manslaughter of 84-year-old John Brown at Warwick Crown Court today (30 July 2025) after a trial lasting three weeks. He was also convicted of ...

A woman has been convicted of murdering her ex-partner after stabbing him through the heart with a kitchen knife at his family home on Christmas Day last year.

In June 2025, the CPS West Midlands Magistrates’ and Crown court units successfully prosecuted various hate crime cases. Below are some of the cases.

A former Premier League football player has today been sentenced at Preston Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to harassment without violence. Colin Hendry, 59, pleaded guilty to harassing a ...

The ringleader of a people-smuggling operation which led to the tragic deaths of 39 Vietnamese men, women and children in Essex, has had his sentence extended for failing to pay back his Confiscation ...

Two more men have been charged in relation to disorder in Epping, Essex. Rebecca Mundy, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS East of England said: “The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Essex ...

A woman has been jailed for causing the death of her terminally ill partner of 37 years after attacking him on New Year’s Eve ...

Ipswich Crown Court sentenced Thomas Kavanagh, 57, and Gary Vickery, 42, to 21 years’ imprisonment and 20 years’ imprisonment ...

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 ...

Lee Gower, 43, has been charged with violent disorder and assault on an emergency worker. Those previously charged by the CPS are: Aaron Elles, 28, with violent disorder. Jonathan Glover, 47, with ...

Two teenagers who viciously attacked a 14-year-old boy with machetes on a bus in south-east London have been jailed for his murder. Kelyan Bokassa from Greenwich was stabbed multiple times as he ...