A mother with a “history of mental illness” strangled her seven-year-old son then drowned him in the bath, a court heard. Christina Acres, 37, accepts that she killed George Acres
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A judge has told doctors they can stop providing life-support treatment to a brain-damaged woman who had worked as a carer for disabled people. Mrs Justice Gwynneth Knowles heard that
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Council social services bosses have failed to prove that a woman deliberately breached a judge’s order restricting her contact with her teenage son. Lawyers representing Westminster City Council complained that
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Four working single mothers have won a High Court challenge over the Government’s controversial Universal Credit welfare scheme. Two judges in London announced on Friday that the women – who
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A woman whose husband took their daughter and left her at his family home in Libya has launched the latest round of a six-year court fight to get the youngster
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A woman with mental health difficulties who has had four children taken from her care has a pattern of becoming pregnant, a family court judge said. Judge Elizabeth Williscroft says
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A woman who pretended to be ill has pleaded guilty to defrauding a cancer charity out of more than £90,000. Patricia Robertshaw, 42, who worked as a partnership and events
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A prison officer who fell in love with a convicted killer has been jailed for smuggling steroids and phones into prison in her underwear. Gemma Farr (pictured) was found to
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Introducing special measures to allow vulnerable witnesses to submit evidence without the need to attend court could help to mitigate re-traumatisation, MSPs have heard. The Justice Committee in the Scottish
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A health trust has been fined £300,000 after two nurses were stabbed by a patient at a medium secure psychiatric unit. The staff suffered life-threatening injuries when patient Myha Grant
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