Peers have backed a move aimed at pushing through a law to compensate victims of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland before Parliament dissolves. The backbench bid by former Northern
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No decision has been made on whether a bill compensating victims of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland will become law before Parliament dissolves, a minister said. Victims of physical,
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A judge has concluded that three girls were not systematically abused by members of a paedophile ring after an “unprecedentedly complex” High Court investigation. Sir Mark Hedley (pictured) had analysed
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Peers are hoping new laws to compensate victims of abuse in Northern Ireland can be rushed through Parliament before a possible election. Northern Ireland minister Lord Duncan of Springbank (pictured)
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Six men have been convicted of grooming vulnerable girls in Huddersfield and treating them as “objects to be used and abused at will”. Jurors at Leeds Crown Court (pictured) were
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A culture of “cover-up and denial” allowed decades of extensive abuse of pupils by monks and teachers at a west London Catholic school to continue, a report has said. The
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Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a Saudi Arabian woman who was found guilty in her absence of poisoning a young girl with insulin at a London children’s hospital. Amal Asiri,
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A group of paedophile hunters “overstepped the mark” when they falsely imprisoned and used violence against men they suspected of being child sex offenders, a court has heard. The group,
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A former pupil at a Catholic boarding school has told how he was raped by a monk who he suspects to be his father. The witness, who cannot be named
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A man has been jailed for eight years after admitting killing his 23-day-old daughter by shaking her. Thomas Haining, who was 19 at the time of the crime, had been
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