Chris Atkinson, Senior District Crown Prosecutor for CPS North East, said: “The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised Durham Constabulary to charge eight people in relation to an alleged incident ...

Richard Las, Director of HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service, said: “This has been a complex and international investigation. These are serious charges that relate to conspiracy to defraud, bribery, ...

Clothing manufacturer Arif Patel, of Preston, and his criminal gang stole £33.4 million from the UK government through fake ...

A man has been found guilty of murdering a former prison officer in a revenge killing outside a gym in Skelmersdale after the victim reported an illicit phone found in prison that exposed the killers’ ...

A transgender woman who failed to disclose her gender status to a male sexual partner has been found guilty of sexual assault today at Teesside Crown Court.

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.

A man who killed a woman before callously disposing of her body in his garden shed has been found guilty of murder following a trial at Manchester Crown Court. Christopher Barlow, 62, initially ...

A teenager from Ilkeston in Derbyshire has been convicted of the murder of 18-year-old Noah Smedley in the town. Charles Hartle, 18, who was 17 at the time, stabbed Mr Smedley in the heart with a ...

A man has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for grooming and raping a schoolgirl in Rotherham 20 years ago. The Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) dedicated Organised Child Sexual Abuse Unit ...