A doctor will be sentenced for committing a string of sex attacks on patients, including women who had complained of back pain and hay fever. Jaswant Rathore was convicted at
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Council social services bosses must think long and hard before trying to take severely-disabled children from the care of their parents, the most senior family court judge in England and
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Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis has criticised the criminal justice system for letting a former university friend continue his 20-year campaign of harassment against her. Obsessive Edward Vines, 47, has stalked
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Two young men who bludgeoned a homeless Romanian to death with a meat cleaver have been sentenced to life in prison. Razvan Sirbu, 21, was left with a broken skull,
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A woman who was abused and raped as a child is not capable of caring for her toddler daughter, a family court judge has ruled. Judge Jessica Pemberton said the
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A third rape case in just over a month has collapsed after a failure from investigators to find key evidence. The case against Samson Makele was halted at Snaresbrook Crown
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Toddler Poppi Worthington was sexually abused before her death, a coroner has ruled. The “fit and active” 13-month-old was in an “unsafe” sleeping environment and suffered injuries to her bottom
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Former football coach Barry Bennell carried out the “systematic and persistent” sexual abuse of young boys, including assaulting two youth footballers in the changing rooms at Crewe Alexandra’s ground, a
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Charlie Dunn – who drowned after being allowed to ”fend for himself” at a water park – was placed on a child protection register a year before his death, a
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The investigation of rape and sexual offences are “in a mess”, a former top police officer has warned. Ex-Metropolitan Police commissioner Lord Blair of Boughton made his stark assessment as
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