This roundup of claims has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information. Some widely shared
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A predator who groomed an under-age girl online has been jailed for 43 years after he tried to murder her in the street. Ellis Dismore (pictured), 24, had sent threatening
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MPs have rejected a Conservative bid to push for another national inquiry into grooming gangs by 364 votes to 111. The Government’s draft child protection legislation cleared its first Commons
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A leading UK forensic psychologist graded a man convicted of being part of a child abuse ring “medium risk”, a court has heard. Iain Owens (pictured) was found guilty in
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Elon Musk “knows absolutely nothing” about the subject of grooming gangs, Jess Phillips has said, after the billionaire attacked her on social media. The Home Office minister suggested her life
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The former head of a national inquiry into child sexual abuse has warned against “politicising” the issue, as she urged the Government to act on the “full implementation” of reforms
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A woman who was found guilty of assaulting a child in a Glasgow drugs den where seven other people carried out “harrowing” abuse was spared further punishment although a judge
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The Prime Minister remains embroiled in a row with billionaire Elon Musk over calls for a national investigation into child sexual abuse following his speech on Monday. Responding to questions
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The mother of a former police officer who was given a life sentence for child sex abuse has been sentenced to two years for perverting the course of justice, after
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Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother have been jailed for life for years of horrific “torture” and “despicable” abuse culminating in her murder. The 10-year-old suffered “unimaginable pain, misery and anxiety”
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