An international panel of neonatologists and medical experts reviewing the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital has found no evidence of murder by the former nurse Lucy Letby – instead ...

The government plans to double funding towards neighbourhood policing teams, investing £200 million in the next financial year. The funding aims to ensure the government meet their target of ...

Reported incidents of rape and sexual assault have risen fourfold in the past decade, according to a new report that says the Home Office has made ‘little progress’ to improve the situation. One in 12 ...

Women’s prisons have ‘astonishing gaps in basic decency’ and an ‘overreliance’ on physical force according to new research which examined conditions in four jails. Self-harm among women in prison has ...

The Westminster inquiry into joint enterprise yesterday began its call for written evidence into the controversial common law doctrine that allows multiple people to be prosecuted and punished for the ...

The justice minister has promised to ‘restore confidence’ in the troubled miscarriage of justice watchdog after its chair finally stepped down early after months of pressure. In an exchange in the ...

Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...

The prisons minister has said he wants to reverse the rise in number of women prisoners and close a women’s prison. Speaking to the Guardian, James Timpson said at least one of the women’s prisons on ...

Misconduct by police officers in England and Wales has increased by almost a third since last year, with the Home Office recording 31% more incidents in the year ending in March 2024. A total of 1,698 ...

A major new review of the criminal courts system is being initiated to tackle delays and inefficiencies amid historic backlogs. Sir Brian Leveson, former judicial chief for criminal justice, is ...

The miscarriage of justice watchdog has referred the conviction of the final member of the ‘Stockwell Six’ more than than 50 years after being convicted. Ronald De Souza was convicted on 22 September ...

Polling has revealed that public support for bringing back capital punishment for certain crimes has increased from 50 to 55%, compared to its last poll in autumn 2023. The data, gathered by More in ...