A priest who sexually abused schoolboys at a Catholic seminary in the 1970s and 1980s in a “quite appalling way” has been jailed for 18 years. Father Michael Higginbottom (pictured)
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Widespread calls for change to legal aid funding for inquests are being “ignored” by Government, campaigners have claimed. Cuts to legal aid funding in civil cases have made it harder
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A High Court judge has voiced concern after a “slight” and “highly-disturbed” epileptic 11-year-old boy was handcuffed and placed in leg restraints by police for an “extended period”. Mr Justice
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A fantasist whose repeated lies tarnished the reputations of the high-profile men he falsely accused of being murderers and paedophiles has been jailed for 18 years. The Metropolitan Police spent
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A severely disabled man who communicated by blinking and persuaded a judge to let him leave hospital and go home to his mother has died, lawyers have said. Mr Justice
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A health trust is carrying out an internal investigation after a paranoid schizophrenic killed his mother following his discharge from hospital care. Lee Sowerby (pictured), 45, had already received two
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A High Court judge has said special arrangements must be made to allow a two-year-old girl thought to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) to travel to Egypt.
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Attacks on prison staff rose 15% in a year, while self-harm incidents in jails reached a new record level, official figures show. Assaults behind bars hit a new high of
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A man who paid to watch children being sexually abused in the Philippines via livestream has been jailed for nine years. Prosecutors said Matthew Bell (pictured) is the first person
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An under-fire police force is still not effectively managing children at risk, a report has concluded. Northamptonshire Police were told there were a number of areas to improve in child
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