Specialists have been given the go-ahead to swab the mouth of an elderly dementia sufferer so DNA tests can be carried out in a bid to establish whether he fathered
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A teenager has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 19 years after being found guilty of murdering a youth mentor in a knife attack. Hamed Hussein, 19,
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A father who had at least six children with his own daughter has been given a 40-year extended life sentence. The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity
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A GP accused of molesting female patients as young as 11 cited celebrities Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to convince them to have unnecessary examinations, a court has heard. Manish
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Theresa May has voiced concerns over Boris Johnson’s attempts to control immigration into the UK. The former prime minister cautioned that points-based immigration systems alone are “not an answer to
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Abolishing short jail sentences is not the answer to stopping criminals from reoffending, the Justice Secretary has said. Robert Buckland told MPs that better alternatives to short periods behind bars,
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New powers could be given to the police and courts in Scotland to remove those suspected of domestic abuse from the homes of anyone at risk, the country’s First Minister
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A woman with learning disabilities who was at the centre of an abortion battle has given birth, lawyers have said. The woman’s mother, a Catholic former midwife, had earlier this
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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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Youth offender services urgently need Government guidance to help curb knife crime and county lines drug dealing, inspectors have said. HM Inspectorate of Probation expressed concern over “a lack of
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