A 17-year-old boy has been detained in a psychiatric hospital indefinitely after killing a university lecturer with electric drills, knives and a hammer. The teenager carried out the “sustained and
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A charity operating a psychiatric facility where a teenager was found hanged when it launched a programme of fitness and wellbeing is to be prosecuted, the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
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A man who was acquitted of rape but then successfully sued has been declared bankrupt, meaning he does not have to pay his victim any damages. Stephen Coxen (pictured) was
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A couple have been arrested on suspicion of holding a woman as a domestic slave in Belfast for more than six years. Police said the arrests are the first of
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An arrogant cricketer who treated a “dozing” woman whom he raped in his team-mate’s bedroom like a “piece of meat” has been jailed for five years. Alex Hepburn, 23, was
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A “fantasist” who claimed to be in the elite SBS special forces unit has been jailed for his part in a plot to dump a dementia-suffering American pensioner in rural
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A police force failed to cross-reference almost half the incidents involving a serial stalker who drove his ex-partner to take her own life by bombarding her with abusive voicemails, texts
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A vulnerable girl was “raped and abused by multiple men over several years” starting when she was 11 or 12 years old, a jury has heard. The victim was “deliberately
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Jeremy Corbyn has criticised moves to get rape victims to turn over their mobile phones to the police. The Labour leader’s intervention came after rape complainants were told they risked
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Privacy and victims’ rights campaign groups have called for reform after police forces introduced new consent forms asking rape victims to hand over their mobile phones. Griff Ferris, legal and
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