Rapist doctor who gagged victim and threatened her with scissors is struck off
A doctor who violently raped a woman and then threatened to release a video of the attack said he was not interested in the outcome of a medical tribunal –
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Taskforce ‘needed in nightmare disputes’ over care of critically ill children
Guidance should be produced to ensure parents’ views are taken into account and families should be given appropriate notice of court action in cases where they disagree with medical professionals
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Family of woman who died in YOI granted partial legal aid for inquiry
The family of a woman who took her own life in a young offenders institution are receiving partial legal aid for representation at an inquiry into her death, a court
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Child serial killer nurse Lucy Letby lodges Court of Appeal challenge against convictions
Child serial killer Lucy Letby has formally lodged a bid to challenge her convictions at the Court of Appeal, officials have confirmed. Court staff said on Friday that they had
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Doctor patted patient’s bottom and failed to gain surgery consent, tribunal told
A doctor patted the bottom of a female patient in a hospital lift and later told her husband to “go home and fill her up”, a medical tribunal has heard.
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Police officer jailed for 26 years for six counts of rape and sexual assault on child
A police officer has been jailed for 26 years for 20 offences including multiple counts of rape and sexual assault on a child. Stephen Hardy, 46, a detective constable with
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Nearly all domestic abuse charges in Scotland were prosecuted in the past year
Nearly all domestic abuse charges reported to the Crown Office in the past year were prosecuted, figures show. Prosecutors pursued 94% of the 30,139 charges in 2022-23 through the courts,
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First Minister calls for ‘urgency’ on pilot drugs consumption room in Glasgow
A pilot drugs consumption room in Glasgow must be taken forward “with urgency”, Humza Yousaf has said, after a statement from Scotland’s Lord Advocate paved the way for such a
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Retired social worker sentenced for historical cruelty against children in her care
A former “house mother” who abused children in her care in the 1960s and 1970s has been sentenced to 300 hours of community service. Retired social worker Euphemia Ramsay, 76,
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HMP Wandsworth ‘really needs closing’, says chief inspector of prisons
The jail from which former soldier Daniel Khalife escaped “really needs closing”, the prisons watchdog said. Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor said “in an ideal world” Wandsworth would be
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