A “frail” 73-year-old woman who beat her wheelchair-bound husband to death with a wooden pole after suffering years of abuse has been cleared of murder. Packiam Ramanathan went into a
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A new awareness campaign encouraging people to view autism as a development difference rather than a disorder has been announced. The Scottish Government is working with the charity Inspiring Scotland
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The NHS is to launch the world’s first database charting child deaths in an effort to stop under-18s dying from preventable causes. The National Child Mortality Database (NCMD), funded by
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The number of adults seeking a charity’s help in dealing with an alcoholic parent has tripled over five years. The National Association for the Children of Alcoholics (NACOA) last year
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Ministers are to assemble a taskforce to tackle the rising number of drug deaths in Scotland. Public health minister Joe FitzPatrick made the announcement as he said “radical steps” are
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A father who violently shook his four-month-old son to death has been jailed for a total of 15 years. Sam Gildea, 30, of Partington, Greater Manchester, admitted the manslaughter of
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Former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor must be cleared by a public inquiry of “heinous allegations” of involvement in historical child sex abuse at Westminster, his barrister has said. Adam Wagner,
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A university student died after doctors failed to spot a head injury he sustained during a night out to celebrate his birthday, a coroner has found. Maria Voisin, senior coroner
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A woman who embezzled a six-figure sum from a charity has been ordered to pay back more than £175,000 in ill-gotten gains. Mary Booth, 58, pled guilty in July 2017
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The family of a man with Down’s syndrome who died in hospital after they say he was left unfed for 19 days have said their brother “was allowed to die
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