Crown Prosecution Service News
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A 61-year-old man from Ireland was charged with the murder of four British soldiers in a 1982 bombing in London’s Hyde Park by the Irish Republican Army.
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Four members of the LulzSec “hacktivist” group were sentenced to a total of seven years in prison for disrupting websites at Sony Corp., News Corp. and the Central Intelligence Agency.
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U.K. lawmakers rejected suggestions that the age of a child should be taken into account in sexual abuse cases, as Britain debates historical abuse including those of television star Jimmy Savile.
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A News Corp. journalist became the sixth from its Sun tabloid charged with misconduct in a public office along with a press officer for U.K. tax officials as part of a police-led probe into wrongdoing at the company.
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Kyrgyzstan is “disappointed” with the dismissal of a U.S. criminal case against the son of ousted former leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev, a spokesman for the Central Asian country’s government said.
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A U.S. criminal securities fraud case against Maksim Bakiyev, the son of former Kyrgyzstan leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev, has been dismissed, prosecutors said, without giving an explanation.
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The bodyguard of Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive officer of News Corp.’s U.K. unit, was charged with perverting the course of justice during probes of phone hacking and bribery at the company’s newspapers.
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Stuart Hall, a former host of British Broadcasting Corp. television programs, pleaded guilty to 14 sexual-assault offenses, involving victims as young as nine over a period spanning almost two decades.
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Max Clifford, a celebrity publicist who has represented O.J. Simpson, David Beckham and Simon Cowell, was charged by U.K. prosecutors with committing 11 “indecent assaults” from 1966 to 1985.
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Home Secretary Theresa May raised the possibility of prosecuting Abu Qatada, an Islamic cleric accused of links to al-Qaeda, in the U.K. after multiple efforts to deport him for trial in his home country of Jordan stalled.
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