A “sadistic” man who waterboarded a six-year-old girl and forced her to run barefoot on a treadmill for up to four-and-a-half hours so she would sleep at bedtime has been
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A former Liberal Democrat MP has revealed he was a suspect into a two-year investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of a teenage girl. John Hemming, who represented Birmingham Yardley,
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Actress Joanne Froggatt urged people to talk more openly about curbing sexual violence as she relived her character’s rape scene in Downton Abbey. She said she was shocked when the
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Nursery workers’ wages could have to be slashed to pay for the Government’s 30 hours of free childcare scheme, according to new research. The New Economics Foundation think tank found
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Secret footage shows a detainee being choked at a privately-run immigration removal centre, it is claimed. The incident forms part of an alleged culture of abuse captured by undercover filming
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A health spa owner accused of drunkenly massaging a male customer’s thighs while wearing a bikini has been cleared of sexual assault. Kerry Brocklebank, 43, was alleged to have repeatedly
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Prosecutors will decide whether two Metropolitan Police Service employees should be charged over the death of a homeless man, the police watchdog has said. Pericles Malagardis, 63, was found unresponsive
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The mayor of Tower Hamlets Council has insisted the authority looked “very carefully at the appropriate matching” following a case where a five-year-old girl from an English-speaking Christian family was
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The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has issued an official complaint with the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) over what it calls ‘inaccurate, biased and inflammatory articles’ about a
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A mentally ill man who swallows sharp objects and has suffered damage to his intestines is to receive artificial nutrition after being at the centre of litigation in a specialist
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