Former vicar who repeatedly beat naked woman with cane given absolute discharge
A former vicar who repeatedly beat a woman with a bamboo stick during a decade of “bizarre and cruel” abuse has been given an absolute discharge by a judge who
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Mother jailed for causing death of baby daughter in ‘squalid’ home, police say
A mother has been jailed for causing her baby daughter’s death while keeping her in “squalid” conditions, according to the Metropolitan Police. Eleven-month-old Nafahat died of a chest infection after
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ITH Pharma fined £1.2m after supplying contaminated feed for premature babies
A pharmaceutical company has been fined more than £1.2 million after supplying contaminated feed for premature babies – three of whom later died. Some 19 infants were infected with Bacillus
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Father, 93, convicted of allowing the ‘horrific’ death of immobile and vulnerable daughter
The 93-year-old father of an immobile and vulnerable woman who died in “horrific” conditions in a bedroom has been convicted of allowing her death. After deliberating for more than 15
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Woman murdered boy she hoped to adopt as ‘frustration turned to hostility’, court hears
A woman murdered a 12-month-old boy she was hoping to adopt as her frustration with him turned to hostility, a court has heard. Leiland-James Corkill was placed with Laura Castle,
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Heroin addict jailed for 20 years over death of seven-year-old son from needless asthma attack
A drug addict whose seven-year-old son died alone from a needless asthma attack after she used his inhalers to smoke crack cocaine has been jailed for 20 years. Laura Heath
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High Court’s care homes ruling ‘rubs more salt in wound’ for families, says bereaved daughter
The High Court’s ruling that Government policies on discharging hospital patients into care homes were “unlawful” has “rubbed more salt in the wound” for families, a bereaved daughter has said.
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Government policies on discharging patients into care homes without testing ‘unlawful’ – High Court
Government policies on discharging untested hospital patients into care homes at the start of the coronavirus pandemic were “unlawful”, the High Court has ruled, undermining claims that a “protective ring”
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‘Clear missed opportunities’ by social workers in boy’s fatal neglect death – child protection chief
There were “clear missed opportunities” by social workers ahead of the death of a severely asthmatic boy whose mother has been convicted of fatal neglect, according to Birmingham’s child protection
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Heroin addict mother convicted of fatally neglecting young asthma-suffering son
A nurse warned a vulnerable severely asthmatic seven-year-old boy “could die at the weekend” two days before the youngster’s death, alone and “gasping for air”, after being fatally neglected by
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