Justice secretary Angela Constance is to lead a board being set up to help ensure changes recommended after deaths at Polmont Young Offenders Institution are “delivered at pace”. Constance announced
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Abortion buffer zones cannot be enforced when clinics are closed, police have said in an email seen by the PA news agency. The legislation – which started as a member’s
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The mother of Emma Caldwell has said her family have “waited a long time” for closure, after a judge was appointed to chair the inquiry into the investigation of her
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A man who pretended to be a paramedic has been jailed for 12 years for the rape of one woman and the sexual assault of two others who he met
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A 29-year-old man who researched child murders including the Southport killings has been jailed for 30 years for the attempted murder of a nine-year-old girl who he stabbed three times
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Scotland’s top law officer has instructed the criminal prosecution of a private prison over allegations of failing to manage the medical care of an inmate with Covid-19 who died alone
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A court ruling on biological sex has been hailed a victory confirming “women are women and men are men”, but some have called it “incredibly worrying for the trans community”.
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A professional photographer who was jailed for secretly filming dozens of young women with a camera disguised as an alarm clock has been sentenced for more crimes after further victims
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A Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for more than four years for rape. Pc Samuel McGregor, 33, was found guilty of raping a woman at an address in London
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Constance Marten’s baby could have been exposed to a “substantial risk of hypothermia” in a tent on the South Downs, an expert has said. Marten, 37, and Mark Gordon, 50,
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