Criminal gangs are exploiting thousands of children as young as 11 to run lucrative “county lines” drug networks that rake in hundreds of millions of pounds a year, law enforcement
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A teenage paedophile has been detained for nearly eight years for sexually assaulting two young girls. Sophie Elms, 18, filmed the abuse she committed on the pre-school aged children and
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Domestic abuse is one of the most prevalent crimes in England and Wales, accounting for 33% of violent crime recorded by the police in the year to March 2018. The
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A county lines drug dealer who forced a London teenager to travel to Swansea to deal heroin and crack cocaine has been jailed for eight years, police said. Jerome Wallis,
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A rise in the number of family court cases means corners may have to be cut, a senior judge has warned. Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the Family Division of
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A man has appeared at Belfast Magistrates’ Court charged with controlling prostitution for gain and trafficking within the UK. The 55-year-old was assisted by a translator as two charges relating
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A woman who coached her three children to say “negative things” about their father without justification must have the youngsters taken from her care, a family court judge has ruled.
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The use of pre-recorded evidence in criminal trials in Scotland could be increased after MSPs on Holyrood’s Justice Committee approved initial proposals. The committee has been considering the Vulnerable Witnesses
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Thousands of people on benefits are being “unlawfully discriminated against” under a controversial Government welfare scheme, the High Court has heard. In a test case over Universal Credit (UC), three
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A High Court judge is reconsidering evidence surrounding the death of a ten-year-old girl whose body was found in her bedroom more than two years ago. Mr Justice Hayden has
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