Police officers carrying out domestic abuse are being “protected and not brought to justice”, campaigners have claimed. The legal charity the Centre for Women’s Justice (CWJ) has made a super-complaint
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A family court judge criticised for having “outdated” views about sexual assault is the subject of an investigation following a complaint. Judge Robin Tolson recently came under fire because of
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A former Scottish Government official has told a court she felt “hunted” by Alex Salmond moments before an alleged attempted rape in Bute House. The former first minister of Scotland
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Just 4% of child abuse offences recorded by police over a year resulted in a charge or summons, official data shows. Around 227,500 offences identified as child abuse were recorded
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Black and minority ethnic (BME) women who are sexually abused are being let down by racialised responses from health professionals, police and social services, a report has suggested. Research by
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A man has been jailed for more than 12 years after admitting to stabbing an emergency services worker in the heart. Scotland Yard said in a statement that Mohammed Alinoor
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A freelance journalist has asked to see a file of evidence relating to a seven-year-old girl who was at the centre of private family court proceedings. Melanie Newman wants a
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More than 300 people have been killed by offenders being monitored by part-privatised probation firms in the last six years, according to new data. A Freedom of Information (FoI) request
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A paedophile fraudster with more than 40 aliases who evaded justice for 28 years after absconding from prison has been jailed for three years and eight months for attempting to
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This bulletin presents statistics on domestic abuse, based on details of incidents and recorded crime supplied by Police Scotland in 2018-19. Incidents of domestic abuse recorded by the police do
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