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03 December 2025 Press Release Sexual offences CPS A 45-year-old man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting four young girls he was looking after at a nursery in London. All the victims were aged three or four. Three of the four girls assaulted by Vincent Chan have been identified, and effort is being made to […]

01 December 2025 Press Release Proceeds of crime CPS A former detective who abused his position by stealing cocaine from the evidence store at work and supplying it on the streets of Manchester has been ordered to pay back over £75,000 or face more time in jail. Andrew Talbot, 55, who was previously a Greater […]

31 October 2025 Press Release Violent crime Mersey-Cheshire The parents of a thirteen-week-old baby boy have been convicted of his murder. Miguel Pirjani, was admitted to Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool on 24 November 2024 after his father Klevi Pirjani,  of Percy Road in Seacombe, Wallasey, had dialled 999. He told the Operator that Miguel “just […]

A self-proclaimed “nerdy kid” who tried building his own bombs in his mother’s back garden has been found guilty today after prosecutors proved he wasn’t just a scientist experimenting at home – and had in fact committed a serious criminal offence. Harry Whittaker Harry Whittaker, 32, of Caddington in Bedfordshire, claimed he just had an […]

A group of men have been sentenced following an arson at a warehouse housing humanitarian aid and Starlink satellite equipment destined for Ukraine.  Jake Reeves (left) and Dylan Earl The attack – which caused damage and repairs costing around £1m – was orchestrated by Dylan Earl, 20, and Jake Reeves, 23, who were recruited by […]

A man has been sentenced for driving his car at high speed, crashing it into a historic shelter, submerging it in a lake and then ringing the police to claim the car had been stolen. Harry Mason Harry Mason, 29, of The Mallards in Southport, was spotted by police, driving a Mercedes car in a […]

The leader of a major organised crime group and four associates responsible for distributing huge quantities of Class A drugs across the North East of the country have been jailed. Shaun Monaghan, 45, of no fixed abode, previously pleaded guilty to his role in running a criminal network that supplied multi-kilo quantities of cocaine, heroin […]

A former Merseyside firefighter has been found guilty of grooming and engaging in sexual activity with a 13-year-old girl. Scott Cameron Today, (10 October 2025) a jury at Liverpool Crown Court has found Scott Cameron, 40, from Liverpool, guilty of ten offences against the teenager between 2022 and 2024. Cameron, who was suspended and then […]

A jobless fraudster who claimed to be the “British Kardashian” has been jailed for swindling people out of thousands of pounds in a handbag sales hoax. Jack Watkin At Chester Crown Court on 6 October 2025, Jack Watkin, 26, of Wilmslow Road in Alderley Edge in Cheshire, was sentenced to four years and six months […]

A dark web user has been imprisoned today for engaging in a variety of child sexual abuse acts which degraded victims. Robert Chown Robert Chown, 48, pleaded guilty to 41 counts of offences ranging from causing or inciting children to engage in sexual activity to downloading and accessing child sexual abuse materials and has been […]