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Director of Public Prosecutions

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noun

  1.  DPP.  (in Britain) an official who, as head of the Crown Prosecution Service, is responsible for conducting all criminal prosecutions initiated by the police

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The Garda informed the judge that the Director of Public Prosecutions authorised the withdrawal of the assault charge and that the sole count of murder was to proceed on indictment to the Central Criminal Court.

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Wardell recently published an open letter to the director of public prosecutions, Stephen Parkinson, on social media, questioning if he believed Finn's law was being applied "as Parliament intended".

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Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson, who is the most senior prosecutor in England and Wales, said the CPS had tried to obtain further evidence from the government "over many months" and that witness statements did not meet the threshold to prosecute.

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Director of public prosecutions Stephen Parkinson has said the case could not progress because the government's witness, deputy national security adviser Matt Collins, would not explicitly say China was an active threat to national security at the time of the alleged offences.

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After weeks of pressure, Parkinson, who is the head of the CPS and director of public prosecutions, has now written a long letter to the national security strategy committee, ahead of appearing before it on Monday.

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