An emotional Nicola Sturgeon has issued a “sincere, heartfelt and unreserved” apology to the thousands of women in Scotland who were forced to give up their babies for adoption. The
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A former caretaker has been found guilty of killing his girlfriend’s young son after a campaign of “sadistic” abuse. Drug addict Jake Drummond, 33, fatally shook and hit 15-month-old Jacob
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A stepmother who filmed her autistic three-year-old stepson as he lay dying from a brain injury has been jailed for 15 years for manslaughter. Leila Borrington (pictured) killed Harvey Borrington
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Paedophile pop star Gary Glitter has been recalled to prison following a breach of his licence conditions. The 79-year-old, who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s, had
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A former teacher accused of abusing children at two private schools in Edinburgh has been named as Iain Wares after an order preventing his identification was lifted. The Scottish Child
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A two-year-old girl was killed in a “frenzied and extremely violent attack” by her mother’s boyfriend who claimed her injuries were caused by the family dog, a court has heard.
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A father accused of murdering his 10-month-old son on Christmas Day has claimed he never “deliberately” hurt his child. Stephen Boden and his partner, Shannon Marsden, are accused of killing
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Children’s social workers should be equipped with body-worn cameras to spot signs of domestic abuse, an MP has suggested. Conservative MP Bob Blackman told the Commons that introducing the technology
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The parents of a 16-year-old girl with disabilities who died after being severely neglected by them told a court they “lacked support” from authorities. Sarah Lloyd-Jones, 40, and Alun Titford,
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A mother and father who left their morbidly obese daughter in bed-ridden squalor have been jailed for gross negligence manslaughter. Kaylea Titford, 16, was found in conditions described as “unfit
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