Five children have been taken from their mother after social workers raised concern about her partner’s violent past. Judge Eleanor Owens has approved a plan to place the children into
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Family courts are overwhelmed with applications from council social services bosses wanting decisions relating to the care of children, a senior judge has said. Judges are often under extreme time
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A former driving instructor has been jailed for 18 years after raping a 14-year-old girl and sexually assaulting a number of his pupils. Martyn Rees (pictured) was arrested by Staffordshire
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Ministers must “get a grip” and deal with the “appalling” rate of rape prosecutions, Labour has said. Shadow solicitor general Nick Thomas-Symonds (pictured) highlighted the latest official figures which show
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A man has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years for the brutal murder of a mother of one. Benjamin Topping, 25, was given a life sentence at Preston
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Predatory paedophile ex-football coach Bob Higgins has been found guilty of 45 charges of indecent assault against 23 teenage boys. A jury returned guilty verdicts following a retrial at Bournemouth
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Taxi driver John Worboys has appeared in court accused of drugging four women in a bid to carry out sex attacks. Grey-haired Worboys, wearing a grey shirt and glasses, gave
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A former Army officer has been jailed for three years and two months after he spent thousands of pounds watching children being sexually abused, streamed from the Philippines. Andrew Whiddett
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A man accused of lying about a VIP Westminster paedophile ring gave police a list of potential abusers after he had been shown a series of photographs by a journalist,
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A family court judge who concluded that a man played a part in subjecting a three-year-old girl to female genital mutilation (FGM) has refused to reopen the case. The man
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