A “thoroughly evil and manipulative” man who plied his partner with cocaine and then fatally strangled her on the night she planned to end their relationship has been jailed for
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MSPs have been urged to ensure domestic abuse victims have access to comprehensive financial and legal advice to prevent them suffering economic abuse even when relationships end. Scottish Women’s Aid
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A mother who is appealing against a judge’s decision to allow her child to stay overnight with the father – who was found to have raped and abused her –
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Victims in rape and attempted rape cases will be able to access free legal advice through a proposed Government-backed pilot. The initiative will give victims the chance to prepare for
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A 21-year-old “social misfit” with a “grievance against women” has been jailed for life to serve a minimum of more than 39 years for the murder of Amie Gray because
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The father and stepmother of Sara Sharif have lost their Court of Appeal bids to reduce the minimum terms of their life sentences for the 10-year-old’s murder. Urfan Sharif and
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A father who shook his infant son so violently that it caused severe brain injuries has been jailed for at least 20 years for the child’s murder. Craig Rowland, 29,
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Triple crossbow and knife killer Kyle Clifford has been handed a whole-life order, as a judge described him as a “jealous man soaked in self pity, who holds women in
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A trial date has been set for a 42-year-old woman charged with the murder of her two-year-old daughter who died after being found in a pond. Alice Mackey, of Oakhanger,
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A husband who killed his wife after suffering years of abuse at her hands has been jailed for three years. Charles Graham, 78, strangled his wife of nearly 50 years,
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