A healthcare professional has been charged with sexually assaulting seven women at a hospital. Lancashire Police said Hernando Puno, 51, was charged with nine counts of sexual assault relating to
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A mother-of-two with a rare form of cancer has taken health bosses to court over their decision not to pay for her to have potentially life-saving surgery. Maria Wallpott, 50,
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A “wicked” stepmother and a “pitiless” father have been convicted of cruelly abusing and killing his six-year-old son. Emma Tustin, 32, was unanimously convicted of murdering Arthur Labinjo-Hughes at Coventry
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A troubled boy’s placement in a children’s home is costing nearly £500,000 a year, a family court judge has said. The boy had been taken from the care of his
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A stepmother accused of murdering a six-year-old boy has pleaded guilty part-way through her trial to cruelly beating the child in the days before he suffered a fatal head injury.
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Judges asked to decide whether someone has the mental capacity to engage in sex should assess whether he or she can understand that the other person involved must be able
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Two police officers who took “shameful” crime scene photos and described murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman as “dead birds” on social media have been sacked following a tribunal.
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Two girls who went missing from their home in London while at the centre of family court proceedings could be with their mother in France or Madagascar, social services bosses
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An NHS trust has been fined more than £2.5 million over safety failings after an inquiry into the deaths of two patients during “dark days” at one of its hospital
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The age of criminal responsibility in Scotland will be increased from eight to 12 next month, ministers have confirmed. Children’s minister Clare Haughey confirmed the change – which was part
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