Serious failings risked allowing prisoners to make contact with victims from jail, a watchdog has warned. An inspection report on HMP High Down said public protection assessments to determine whether
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A family court judge has raised concerns over the way two children who complained of being sexually abused were questioned by a social worker. Judge Kambiz Moradifar said the social
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Social services bosses at a London council have been criticised by a judge over the way they handled a case involving a severely-disabled Colombian woman who was living in England
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A man should be allowed to pocket £6 million of his mentally incapacitated mother’s £18.6 million fortune for tax reasons, a judge in a specialist court has decided. The 72-year-old
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A serial abuser found guilty of a catalogue of violent and sexual crimes over a period of more than 20 years has been jailed. Brian McTaggart, from Dundee, will serve
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A custody sergeant accused of breaching police standards by authorising the strip search of a philosophy lecturer who went limp and refused to give her name has been cleared of
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A former finance manager for Kensington and Chelsea Council has admitted defrauding around £60,000 from the Grenfell Tower victim fund. Jenny McDonagh took £62,000 meant for survivors of the tragedy
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A bereaved mother-of-four has described how she both cried and beamed with joy after a landmark legal judgement over the rights of unmarried couples. Siobhan McLaughlin, 46, was refused bereavement
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The co-founder of a children’s soft play company has been jailed for spying on dozens of women and schoolgirls, authorities said. Former Eddie Catz director Darren Johnson was sentenced to
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Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has resigned his membership of the SNP amid allegations of sexual harassment. Mr Salmond made the revelation in a video message posted on social
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