An online blackmailer whose Northern Irish teenage victim later took his own life has been sentenced to four years in prison. Ronan Hughes, 17, from Co Tyrone, died in June
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A woman who made a string of false rape claims and sexual assault allegations cost the police more than £250,000 and around 6,400 hours of work. Jemma Beale (pictured) was
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An NHS hospital nurse who supplied drugs to a pensioner has been jailed for what a judge called “despicable” crimes. Sarah Papachristophorou (pictured) admitted supplying substances to the 77-year-old victim
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A senior judge has expressed concern after being told there is no secure accommodation anywhere in the country for a “troubled and dangerous teenager believed to be involved in serious
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A policewoman who says her two-year-old son was wrongly taken from her care following an investigation by council social workers has lost the latest round of a court battle. The
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Paedophile rock star Ian Watkins could have been caught and brought to justice nearly four years earlier if police had properly investigated reports from a series of informants, the Independent
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An illegal immigrant has been jailed for at least 26 years for murdering a “kind and peace-loving” carer in London’s Hyde Park after slipping through the hands of authorities at
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Rules on prison visits for male inmates punish their children unfairly, according to a leading charity. Barnardo’s says some sons and daughters see their fathers for just two hours every
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A “fantasist” who posed as a barrister to trick a terminal cancer sufferer out of her life savings is facing prison. Michael Cremin conned Sandra Burch out of £92,000 in
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A mother will face trial accused of sexually abusing her daughter after the girl’s father pleaded guilty to raping the youngster on a number of occasions. The woman, who cannot
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